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  1. WGroleau

    Partially unplugging from the world

    Just curious … I was “connected” by satellite, but with a cell phone, aren’t you “disconnected” between villages even if the thing is turned on? If so, here’s a tip: when the cell towers are not available (or weak signal) the phone increase the power trying harder to reach them, thereby...
  2. WGroleau

    Coffee

    Charbucks
  3. WGroleau

    Bronze Scallop Shell…Carry-on?

    If you plan to check something, put it in there and no need for this thread. If not, get to the airport early enough to take a postal detour if the thing is disallowed.
  4. WGroleau

    Albergue Etiquette

    Rule #1: Expect to be in a room with people who did not read the rules and would not follow them if they had read them.
  5. WGroleau

    Medication woes

    I just walk into a farmacía and ask for them. Don't need a prescription. Same in México.
  6. WGroleau

    Coffee

    I presume this is a joke. For the benefit of anyone else who isn’t sure, it’s not true. I spent seventeen months in Spain (Pamplona to Muxia/Fisterra) and can’t remember ever not having my daily café con leche.
  7. WGroleau

    The Pilgrim’s Guide to Etiquette

    Everywhere you go, there are a few folks that will make a big deal over “america" referring to two continents and not to a country. But everywhere¹, the majority refer to USA as “America” or something similar-sounding. ¹at least in the thirty countries I’ve slept in.
  8. WGroleau

    Partially unplugging from the world

    It was deLorme inReach Explorer, but Germin bought deLorme and still sells a newer version of the Explorer. But there are competing devices.
  9. WGroleau

    Medication woes

    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.
  10. WGroleau

    Alternatives to walking if injured

    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...
  11. WGroleau

    A New Way To Walk The Camino

    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...
  12. WGroleau

    A New Way To Walk The Camino

    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.
  13. WGroleau

    Money taken from my Cash Passport! ☹️

    This is why I keep recommending one have at least two cards, and not from the same bank or credit union.
  14. WGroleau

    The Camino will provide?

    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.”
  15. WGroleau

    The Camino will provide?

    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...
  16. 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...
  17. 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.
  18. 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...
  19. 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...
  20. 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.

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