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    A hard landing upon returning home

    At one point (Hospital de Orbigo) I remember telling a Camino Friend "I'm still feel like I'm not 'done' yet." I wasn't sure what I was expecting to change in me--I just knew it hadn't happened. I think this is part of it. All my worries/stress about things at home were put on hold temporarily...
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    A hard landing upon returning home

    hah, this is the truth! I'm glad none of my stress is related to my job. I work the front desk at a retirement community, the only thing that was rough when I got back was remembering my passwords and going through six weeks' worth of email.
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    A hard landing upon returning home

    Nah, not really. Not just because of money and visa issues--I missed my partner, the rest of my closet, having a kitchen, sleeping in, and also SOFT BEDS, seriously most mattresses in Spain are much firmer than I like, as a side-sleeper with bony hips! It'll probably be at least a few years...
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    A hard landing upon returning home

    This one! https://www.caminochroniclespress.com/books/after-the-camino-your-pocket-guide-to-integrating-the-camino-de-santiago-into-your-daily-life/
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    A hard landing upon returning home

    Thankfully I've never had that problem. My income is below the median and I live like a college student (no car, cheap run-down apartment, roommates) despite being 43, in part because that's the only way I can afford to go other places. My only real indulgences (outside of travel) are clothes...
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    A hard landing upon returning home

    I'm home! I've been home for a bit over a month, actually. And, as I knew would be the case, I came home to a fairly stressful situation. (One too boring/complicated to bother explaining.) And as I near being home for almost as long as I was gone, it's hard not to feel like my Camino didn't...
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    Comment by 'april_pdx' in media 'Pilgrim shoes in Granon'

    I was there just a few weeks before this photo was taken--it was one of my favorite spots on the whole route.
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    Is it rude to ask people why they walk

    I'm walking in part for religious reasons and I would still find that question really personal unless we'd been talking for a while and/or religious topics had already come up. I think my knee-jerk (and honest) answer would either be "Sometimes?" and/or "depends on how you define 'God?'" I...
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    Is it rude to ask people why they walk

    That's a very good point! A lot of it is also that other bicycle tourists just have a mental reference for the answers--if you're on a bicycle loaded with camping gear every day for weeks on end, a fifty mile day is short, for instance; and if you haven't done it you might not know if that's...
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    Wake up alarm

    I appreciate this, thank you!
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    Strangest food & drink on the Camino

    Had to google that, and honestly? I'd try it at least once. But the wikipedia page had the following: "It is also known as katemba in South Africa, cátembe in Mozambique, bambus in Croatia, jote in Chile, and jesus juice in Argentina." I'm cracking up at "jesus juice!"
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    Wake up alarm

    I have a hunch it's part of my ADHD (it does weird things to sleep/circadian rhythms), but oh man this is just not the way my brain/body works. In my day-to-day life I sometimes wake up hours before my alarm and I'm not able to get back to sleep. Other days I go to bed early (for me) and I...
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    Is it rude to ask people why they walk

    When my then-boyfriend and I bicycled across most of North America, we found that after four and a half months we were tired of answering the exact same questions that every non-cyclist who saw us wanted to ask: Where are you going? Where did you come from? How far are you going today?? (We were...
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    Shoe Recommendations for Supination and High Arches

    Huh. I had read in multiple places that shoes for over-pronation were the opposite of what you wanted for supination? Which I admit made sense to me because they'd correct me in the "wrong" direction. (The irony of looking for boots for heavier people: I am. Small. Lol.) I did look up...
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    What to Order at a Bar or Cafe after Using the Restroom

    Back when me and my then-boyfriend did a lot of long-distance bicycle touring, we found that splitting a 16oz bottle of Coke about 2/3rds through the day's miles really helped. I'm sure some of it was just a chance to stop and rest and get a little sugar and caffeine. Our bottles of water by...
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