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Try actually walking for 2-3 hours with the pack holding everything on the list.
Then you will know.
On all of my Caminos (#3) I left stuff behind to lighten up. Including my sleeping
bag on the first Camino which took up too much room in the pack.
Very easy to leave stuff.
You list looks...
If you look at comparitive crime statistics you will see that Spain has a fraction of the crime as here in the United States. Still I wore a money belt under my shirt on all three caminos.
The 150 story building comparison is simply physics - foot/pounds = work.
Elevating one pound up one foot is 1 foot/pound of work.
Climbing 600 meters with a 220 lb body is twice the work (as defined in Physics) as climbing
300 meters and four times the work as climbing just 150 meters like when...
One can learn a great deal about the magnetism of the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage simply by listening to the stories of those who walk it. I discovered four general categories of people who had been drawn to the Camino.
I always get asked this question. What did you find on your Camino?
I...
Actually since you are conserving energy by Chi Walking - I found I could take less recovery breaks.
And walk more than two hours with no breaks.
Thus while you may be walking slower - you make good time with fewer recovery stops/
The breathing for me became deeper--- slower and more regular -...
Taken at the start of the Primitivo is a stature in front of the Cathedral (Camera Santa Room with all the relics) of Alfonso II (The Chaste
It was the start of the Camino.
Hiking poles are a Western appoach.
"More power Scotty" / Star Trek!
They will increase your cardio and respiration.
Sometimes the best decisions are the ones you do not make.
The most energy expended per hour in Olympic competitors are by Nordic skiers - using both arms and legs.
The Eastern...
The Primitivo is very difficult with lots of elevations to tackle out of most stops.
It almost killed me at 64 years old. Steep climbs and valleys of the Cantebrian Mountains.
Think about the flatter Portuguse Route.
Asturias is Cowboy Country.... Lots of meat.
Best seafood is had on the...
The Portuguse Route is flatter, the food is way better, the people are friendlier, the language more lyrical. Best stop was Templar Castle. Best meal was roast suckling pig in Mealhada, Less pilgrims -then again I went in February.
One Line Poetry to describe the Camino Experience:
The Infinite Moment
Infinate Horizon
Now
One day at a time.
Be Still and know that I am God.
Being in the Moment
The Great Silence
More than one Line.............................Lennon
Imagine All the People
Imagine there's no heaven...
Sadly, most books about the Camino are memiors and are quite similar.
I walked all day, got blisters, fellow pilgrims helped, sleeped at an albergue, fat guy
from France snorned. Had some self doubt about going the entire distance, but over came it.
Met cool guy from New Zeland who was into...
Poles are antithetical to the " one man - one Camino philosophy"
It is a unique experience.
I do get the sociological effort - but you will not find any real truth in it.
The Camino is not a telescope - is a microscope. It is about deeply personal narritive.
Those who know, do not say...
I used AAA Travel to make my airline reservations as well as to purchase trip insurance. I flew Jet Blue from Portland Maine to JFK on February 29, leaving at 12:35 p.m. and landing at 1:52, which cost $119 one way.
The flight from JFK to Madrid was Iberia 6250 on an Airbus A 330-300 which...
Alpaca Socks
Frog Togg Rain Gear - ultra-light- like tyveck
Columbia Water-Proof Sneakers
Eddie Bauer Polar Fleece Top
Always bring button-down Brooks Brothers dress shirt for dinner - don't want to look like a "jogger".
Of course we dream every 90 minutes in sleep during the REM Period ---but many of us do not remember our dreams.
Freud (The Interpretaion of Dreams) talked about incorporating the "daily residue" into the narrative of our dreams. If you wanted to interprete this dream - it is essentially an...
Those winter Caminos are tough - but you are tougher----
I did three in Febuary -
Caminos were deserted in the winter - very lonely.
Eventually=== you will conect to others and they will lift you up.
Call ahead to Booking.com - Take a taxi and skip a section if no accomdations.
Go to Gronze to...
The trick to walking on the cobbled roads in Portugal -- is to walk at the extreem edge of the road.
Were the Cobbles are covered with sand and dirt - way less irregular pressure on the feet. Flatter there.
Go to the sides of the roads/ do not walk up the middle.
It is not a sin--- to take a...
The word “Sé” refers to the governing center, or “seat,” of the district where the church is located. The Vatican is therefore located at the Holy See in Rome, or the “holy chair,” designating an ecclesiastical jurisdiction.
The Sé Cathedral’s construction began in the twelfth century, and the...
We pilgrims get a lot of slack from others.
Both locals and other pilgrims.
They give us discounts at their hotels.
Sometimes they do our laundry for free.
Pilgrims help others lug their stuff.
They (locals) put out water for us.
Other walkers-- kindly listen to our problems.
They share food -...
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