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    How to 'check in' without interrupting your camino?

    Yes - someone messaged explaining how this question ties in to those occasional 'missing pilgrim' posts. This has been a very helpful discussion. I have - now that leaving day is so close, negotiations have been re-opened ;)
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    How to 'check in' without interrupting your camino?

    Such a lovely idea!
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    How to 'check in' without interrupting your camino?

    I love the handwritten note picture idea!! Thank you Rick, I think this is a really great solution :)
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    How to 'check in' without interrupting your camino?

    I admire you for doing this! If it weren't for the weight saved carrying my phone instead of books, camera, flashlight & such I'd love complete tech-freedom
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    How to 'check in' without interrupting your camino?

    I'm sure I will be laughing at myself pretty soon for all these questions - is it common to sort of come unglued & frazzled 10 days pre-first-camino? ...✈🚞 :eek:
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    How to 'check in' without interrupting your camino?

    Thanks - this is just what I was imagining! Have you found your battery drains faster keeping gps on? I'm thinking I may need more than one external power bank...
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    How to 'check in' without interrupting your camino?

    YES!! You brilliant genius, thank you! It is that expectation of constant contact that I want to squelch and postcards do that beautifully. I'd been imagining one of those tracking tags like they clip on endangered species, available at REI.
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    How to 'check in' without interrupting your camino?

    Well-meaning folks are asking that I keep them posted, (check in on social media) while on my walk. I'd prefer not to touch a screen or keyboard the whole 18 days at all if I could. Has anyone found a very minimally invasive way of letting your people know you're alive while on camino?
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    Madrid Terminal 4 connection—pass security checkpoint again?

    Are there any organizations that give or take donated poles & sticks at the end of one's camino? My checked bag fee is absurd (the 'gotcha' to a phenomenal airfare price) so I'm thinking to purchase on arrival and donate before I return. Is that a thing?
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    Best packing practice - what to keep in easy* reach?

    Every other aspect of my practice walks for my first camino in September are going great. The only thing I find myself impatient with is the process of getting stuff in and out of my pack during the walk - it just feels awfully clumsy and awkward. Experienced pilgrims: what have you learned to...
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    Penitence by Proxy: Still Alive?

    <3 <3 <3 Yes, JillGat, thank you -- It's just the sin part that my heart will not let me cop to. Created in God's image, sin-free!
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    Penitence by Proxy: Still Alive?

    Thank you for taking the risk! I was baptized Catholic but received First Communion in the Methodist church (parents divorced and my religious upbringing changed in the process) and spent summers at a born-again-Christian summer camp. Now 46, I've pieced together a regular spiritual practice...
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    Penitence by Proxy: Still Alive?

    This is such a great discussion, but I'm also feeling myself in danger of veering off into a few potential 'no-go' religion questions, like how to confess and commune as a first-timer. I should work this in to my other preparation so it can come from a sincere place. Rule 2 does acknowledge the...
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    Penitence by Proxy: Still Alive?

    Thank you t2andreo, I have been curious about whether it would be acceptable for me to earn an indulgence for a deceased family member when I'm a baptized but not practicing Catholic. I appreciate you taking such care to explain a pretty confusing topic. I found this in a guide to the Camino...
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    What's in your first aid kit?

    This is a new one for me, skateboarding friends taught me about crazy glue for cuts but electrician's tape is a whole other level.
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