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I completed Portuguese in two three-week hikes - Lisbon to Porto, then Porto to Santiago - before the pandemic. The first segment was more historical with stumbling onto fortifications meant to repel Napoleon’s army that never showed up, Tomar and the Knight’s Templar castle, a side trip to...
After completing El Norte (San Sebastian - Santiago), Portuguese (Lisbon - Santiago), the Cape to Cape hike on Australia’s west coast, and part of another Geneva into France, I’ve completed parts of Via Francigena (Canterbury - Bapaume) (St Bernard - Aosta) but was interupted first by European...
After completing the 2nd half of Portuguese, Porto to Santiago two years ago, I flew to Geneva to rendezvous with one of my adult sons interested in the Camino culture. We walked four days west toward Le Puy with the fourth night in Charavines, France. It was a great introduction with rolling...
Last Fall, I completed the first portion of Via Francigena from Canterbury to Bapaume, France. After a week in the London suburbs with extended family, I took the train to Canterbury with enough walking in the near future. I am lazy on accommodation selection, mixing B&Bs with modest hotels. I...
After completing the first half of the Portuguese Camino, Lisbon to Porto, my three week trek was reduced to three hours on the train ride back for my flight home. The routes shared many of the same views but at different speeds and exposures. It’s like a connecting flight at a new airport when...
I presume he‘s made it to his desired final destination successfully. With so many family and friends’s passing during this past decade, there are far worse circumstances and locations to meet your end. RIP
The Camino is a life expanding experience if you are open to it. Between my career as a military and commercial pilot, I’ve stayed overnight multiple times or for a few days in dozens of international locations. Being at the Great Wall or the Taj Mahal or the South Pole is not full immersion...
From the NYT....
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/23/travel/this-cross-country-hike-took-5-days-thats-going-the-long-way.html?action=click&module=Features&pgtype=Homepage
The Camino is like ice cream - it’s all good. I walked six weeks on El Norte with a friend and a married couple we met the first day. I’ve walked Lisbon to Santiago, mostly solo but several days with an Irishman and a young Italian woman, a day with a couple of Australians, one day with a young...
Most of the time in NW suburbs of Chicago near two of my six adult kids, but I’m gone half the time. I’ve lived in Indiana, Florida, California, and New Jersey. In the military I spent considerable time in Antarctica, New Zealand, Greenland, the Azores, Japan, and the Philipines. I was gone for...
I’ve used AT&T the last five years on hikes - Portugal, Spain, France, Australia, New Zealand, Scotland (no hike), Ireland (no hike), Istanbul (no hike), Oman (no hike). Their web page offers several plans, most places unlimited text, cheap calls, use your home data plan allowance for $10/day...
I switched to Solomon Ultra with the advice of friends who have completed more than a dozen Caminos and other long hikes.
i bought a pair 1/2 size larger than my previous good pair that gave me blisters for several years.
i coated my foot skin lightly with Vaseline to reduce rubbing.
i trimmed...
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