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Can I turn this? I’ll turn this. The most dangerous place on the Camino Frances, or any other Camino, is the gap between expectation and reality. Many have fallen there. Yes there are places where the footing is a bit challenging and there are...
Get an Altus poncho-jacket that covers you and the pack. (Just don’t throw away the little stuff sack so you can compress the giant thing in your pack again!)
A couple days ago I started the Camino Madrid from Segovia. Some of you may recall that I posted a few months ago looking for a relatively flat Camino to test out my body to find out if I could make another try on the Camino Frances where I had...
If you have a towel, roll the items to be ‘wrung’ in it, like a Swiss Roll, then with clean bare feet stand on and walk on the spot on the roll.
It’ll get a remarkable amount of the water out.
I have no helpful suggestions as to how to then...
I checked a shipping tube with my poles and other sharp objects in it and carried on my pack. The shipping tube came through just fine. If it had been lost it would be no big deal.
I walked along the VF last spring, May 16-June 9.
It's a beautiful route, and a completely different experience from France or Spain. I haven't been able to put my thoughts in coherent order, even after 8 months, so this is just going to be a...
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