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Buy smaller amounts in pharmacies as you go? I got my metformin, levothyroxine, and lisinopril in Spain without my prescriptions, and cheaper than my co-pay in USA.
Also, when I was hospitalero, we had all sorts of first-aid and pain-related things that we could provide to peregrinos in need.
Many cities have bike rentals. I wonder whether some of them may have “electric assist.” But unless you find one (they do exist) that offers to retrieve it from you in Santiago, you’d have to return it by bus.
Or if you’re rich enough, buy one, and sell it at a loss when finished. :cool...
Cynical or not, it would do all of us well to note that AI all too often really means Artificial Idiocy. I’m cynical about it partly because I spent more than thirty years as a software engineer.
Consider how long Google, Tesla, and many others have been working on “self-driving cars” and we...
It’s fastened to the thigh. The amount of help it gives with the weight you’re carrying is surely proportional to the stress it adds to you knees, ankles, and feet!
Also, the lowest cost model is $600. I assume that’s US dollars.
I take a similar appreoach. Folks whine “they'll just sell it for drug money” and I reply, “Maybe, but if so, it least I’ve made them work a little for it.”
The phrase always bothered me, but I never considered the notion of negligence. Just my tendency to prefer accuracy in communication—and it’s far from accurate that a pathway is going to take any action to benefit (or harm) a human or other animate being. If some gracious pilgrim helps me out...
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...
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...
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...
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
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.
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...
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!!
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