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The easy and obvious solution is to start closer to Santiago.
And I find that since my only "job" on the Camino is to walk from point A to point B that I can walk farther on the Camino than I can at home where I have a dozen other tasks that I...
Pattie Wu Murad disappeared on April 10 2023 after leaving the Mandokoro Guest House for the Miura-toge Pass on the Kohechi Trail.
To this day, she remains misssing and no trace of her has been found after she left the guest house.
🙏 Strength...
I started from Pamplona this morning for a quick week walking before starting service as a hospitalera next week back in Pamplona. The trail up to Alto de Perdón has only a few big puddles left after last week’s rain, with good stepping stones to...
Dear forummembers,
It is with great sadness I inform you of the death of @annakappa.
She and her husband fraluchi ( who was also a member here ) were very active on this forum.
They were both gentle and wise people.
They were always generous...
That sounds a bit sad! I don't scrunch the brim, but keep that flat, and then flatten the crown so the hat is a relatively flat disk. It goes that way into my pack for travelling, and then it is on my head most of the time. Sometimes I might hang...
Pack covers are failure points. Not always but often enough. Straps get wet as well as some parts of the material of the bag between the cover an your back. That is why using a heavier waterproof sack or a series of smaller waterproof stuff bags...
Long story short coming home from my Camino was life changing in a devastating way.
Getting ready to sell the family home so things are a little messy with things are not where they should be. I can't find a phone charger because my usual home...
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