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[QUOTE="RobertS26, post: 1126289, member: 18675"] I have told this story before, but I think it worth repeating from time to time. On my second Camino, I met a very skilled surgeon from the United States who was a complete and total perfectionist. In planning his Camino, he read hundreds of books, consulted maps, poured over elevation charts, and looked up historical weather data. He left nothing to chance. The invasion of Normandy took less planning. He was so precise that he prebooked a room for every night of the Camino--some 40 carefully planned out reservations. In all, he spent almost a thousand hours planning out the perfect Camino. The most absolutely glorious, never been done before, perfect Camino. It was a piece of artwork that rivaled the David or the Mona Lisa. Then his Camino started. On the first day he fell in with a Camino family. He loved his Camino family, and they loved him. But there was one problem. His Camino family was being spontaneous. They were living in the moment. As a result, they would not decide on where to spend the night until mid-afternoon at the earliest. Rarely did his Camino family stop in the same village where he had a reservation. His solution? He would stop where his Camino family stopped, have a beer with them, grab a taxi, rush forward/backward to the village where he had his room, check in, shower, change clothes, grab a taxi back to his Camino family, have dinner with them, grab a taxi back to his room, sleep, grab a taxi back to his Camino family, and resume walking with them. I observed this odd behavior all the way from SJPP to Leon. Finally, one day I asked him, "Why don't you just cancel the remainder of your reservations and stay in the same village as your Camino family?" Before he responded, he looked left, looked right, and then leaned in towards me to make sure no one could hear him before he whispered, "I don't want to admit that being a perfectionist about my Camino was a complete and total waste of my time." [/QUOTE]
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