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NEVER - LIKE EVER - be separated from your valuables, even for a moment. Cargo pants with lots of pockets help.
Cross torso bags, like a fanny or bum bag worn cross-body are also good. The less it looks like a woman's handbag - purse, the more...
Good on you, and thanks for serving.
I’ve gotta ask, did you know in advance they’d be there, figure it out by chance, or did it somehow just come up in conversation?
I’ve only once knowingly met a fellow forum member, unlike me, most are not...
I was worried I would fail my Camino from SJPdP. I had a friend years earlier that bailed after the first day and I was terrified I would suffer the same fate. I had made reservations for my first couple of nights which meant I had to be in...
You are not alone! I am 44 and also considering a solo Camino, and feeling very nervous. We have been planning to go together on a shorter break from work, but I was just laid off and it feels like this may be the universe’s way of giving me an...
May I make a suggestion for your partner? It may be valuable to hear some perspectives from pilgrims’ partners, and how those partners’s support from afar is so important and a gift to those on the Way. And perhaps a way for your partner to...
I encourage you to go alone. It will be a challenge but you can do it. There may be lonely, confusing, depressing times. But you will meet a community of kind and supportive pilgrims. You will come to know yourself and what the Lord intends for...
Ellie, the only failure, is failure to try.
Doubt's / nerves are not only normal, they're healthy! And therefore completely understandable.
You've already made two major steps. 1) you've decided you want to do this. 2) you've reached out to...
We all have doubts before our first Caminos, and oftentimes before our 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or 7th Camino.
Before I went the first time I gave myself permission to quit if I discovered that the Camino just wasn't "my thing" and find a nice beach to...
What is "failure"? Some people do it in stages, some get injured and can't complete it (at least, as planned), some decide they don't like it and decide to do something else. There isn't failure in those scenarios, but there is, in the failure to...
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