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  1. BRSmith13

    Need to ship stuff home

    Ask yourself if your items are worth spending $50-100 dollars to ship. Consider donating them or ship to Ivar
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    Cancelling Camino - Soliciting Advice

    Go! You have made your arrangements. Shorten your daily stages. Start closer to Santiago - avoid the very hilly areas by taking another route or other transport. Have your bag transported for you (some albergues don’t accept transported bags). Good for you to understand your limitations. The...
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    Ordering beer in Spain

    I have another beer related question. On a podcast a woman was talking about a wonderful lemon beer - any ideas?
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    The one thing I should have done before I left for the Camino

    Too bad you didn’t get the advice to LOWER coverage, don’t remove it. If there is a valid license tag on a vehicle in most states liability is required. You may not be there to drive it but that doesn’t mean it is physically impossible.
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    Desktop Computer Availability in Albergues

    Or use the voice feature to transcribe for you.
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    Poll Why did you have to abandon your Camino? Anonymous

    Sorry to hear that. Getting older is a bitch; overuse injuries are so common in all weight bearing sports. (Been there, done that.) Mow that I am a senior and wiser, I look to the experienced for sage advice. When asking pilgrims what they would do differently they universally said 1) study more...
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    Carry your backpack please.

    Thank you! Exactly. Gracias Ivar.
  8. BRSmith13

    Carry your backpack please.

    Such a diatribe as to why you personally, in your opinion, feel that carrying a backpack is preferable. You then seem to go on as to why it seems to you to have a plethora of advantages. Kudos to you. I am not sure who you are trying to convince of the advantages. Can I load a pack at home...
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    Carry your backpack please.

    To build “resilience”? Really? As a resilience coach, dealing with adversity “realistically bit optimistically” is the definition. I realistically know that with my physical limitations and past injuries know that the only way I could EVER consider walking MY camino is without anything other...

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