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  1. WGroleau

    Partially unplugging from the world

    I had a GPS tracking device with satellite SMS. People who knew about it could go online and find out where I was—if I gave them the password. I could send SMS or e-mail and receive them from people to whom I had told the phone number. It also had an “SOS” button which supposedly would get...
  2. WGroleau

    Any experience in using your Non-EU Visa Debit Card with 6-digit PIN in ATMs?

    If you do that, don’t count on using ATMs in China. Both that I tried in the Beijing airport explicitly said your PIN must be six digits.
  3. WGroleau

    Commercial walking stunt from Wolksvagen

    That’s only thirteen kilometers a day. Almost all pilgrims can do that! I typically do twenty to thirty, but on day I did 66. So there must be some fine print, maybe the first twenty people to claim it? (If you can’t do thirteen kilometers in a day, there will be a lot of days you don’t make...
  4. WGroleau

    Best app to accurately record distances, elevation and descent per day

    On my iPhone, I have “GPS Tracker” and use it often. It tells the time and distance of tracks recorded, but also, I can save its GPX files and use other tools to tell the distance (such as https://gpsvisualizer.com). I don’t know whether Android has it, but I’m sure Android, like iPhone, has...
  5. WGroleau

    Afraid of top bed without fence

    We generally didn’t make assignments, but we would sometimes ask younger ones to consider it when older ones arrived.
  6. WGroleau

    Did it make a difference

    None of the above, though I certainly enjoyed it enough to go back some day.
  7. WGroleau

    Water, water...

    I have a one-liter Grayl with built-in filter. Filled it from pools and ditches two or three times on a hot day with no ill effect. There are other competing water filters available. This one: https://thegrayl.com
  8. WGroleau

    The Camino walker and the biker. 🤣

    I keep reading this accusation here, yet when I walked, it was not true of most of the cyclists that passed me. Yes, there were a few jerks, but a small minority.
  9. WGroleau

    The Camino walker and the biker. 🤣

    Most of the ones I passed on bike were startled in spite of both bell and announcement.
  10. WGroleau

    What do you wish you had worried less about?

    Yep. Many’s the time when we were full that we called other towns for lodging and/or transportation when we were full and it was getting late.
  11. WGroleau

    What do you wish you had worried less about?

    There’s nothing I wish I had worried less about. Maybe I’m weird, but I am not a worrier. There’s one thing I wish I had worried more about: water. Several times I was a dehydrated enough to be somewhat ill by the time I got “back to civilization” from side trips. Just kept forgetting to...
  12. WGroleau

    Walking with headphones?

    I do the same, but I just have it playing softly and pause when close to others. I have nothing against headphones but just don’t like them—especially when traveling. And earbuds? They keep falling out!!
  13. WGroleau

    Bar Etiquette

    If thee’s no sign, I’d say order at the bar and if it’s only a drink, wait there for it.
  14. WGroleau

    The one thing I should have done before I left for the Camino

    Second card from a different bank to use if the first one has an internet outage.
  15. WGroleau

    The one thing I should have done before I left for the Camino

    An alternative is a temporary change of address to have it sent to that friend. But there are confirmation letters, so you might want to do it two weeks before. (The form has a start date on it; it doesn’t start the day you turn in the form.)
  16. WGroleau

    Shower/bathroom etiquette in the albergues?

    Our boiler was so far from the shower that we had a recirdulation system to keep the pipes warm!
  17. WGroleau

    Desktop Computer Availability in Albergues

    I had an iPad Pro with Apple’s smart keyboard. Almost the same as a laptop plus it has a touch screen. “Apple Pencil“ for a mouse. Much lighter and thinner than a regular laptop. My sister had “Microsoft Surface” which was similar—significantly bigger and heavier than the iPad Pro but still...
  18. WGroleau

    Camino Dating

    It was in Spain (as hospitalero) that it seemed like God was saying that it was time to stop nursing the pain of losing my wife eight years earlier. My response was, “OK, but if You want me to re-marry, You have to arrange it.” I kept the whole matter to myself. Upon arriving back in the USA...
  19. WGroleau

    Shower/bathroom etiquette in the albergues?

    Our showers were sort of “double stalls” so you could hang your clothes in the outer stall to stay dry while you shower. The door was opaque and enclosed both parts.
  20. WGroleau

    Embarrassing moments

    I tried to find the "je t'adore" video, but it seems to have vanished. Here's some other pronunciation humor:

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