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  1. Lulumom

    Souvenirs from Santiago

    Hi all, My husband and I walked from SJPDP to Santiago in 37 days, ending in late May. We were in the group that got floods, snow, rain for a week, etc. so quite an experience! Anyhow, I am finally getting around to putting away all of our hiking gear and realized that I went a little crazy on...
  2. Lulumom

    Disgruntled Pilgrims

    I came away from my Camino with the idea that I wanted to embrace the carrying of my “burden” and refused to put my backpack down until I got my compostella, which meant wearing it - happily - in line for hours. That being said It serves to purpose to censor the feelings or experiences of...
  3. Lulumom

    Finished our Camino and made a video!

    This is the link that should work. You can also search "Camino K2" on youtube and that does work.
  4. Lulumom

    Finished our Camino and made a video!

    Redding is great! We just moved here from the Bay Area last year and couldn't be happier. It's gorgeous and so many nature trails and mountains, lakes...just lots of outdoor beauty. I can definitely see returning to do shorter (100km) patches of other routes, like maybe the Portuguese. Also, it...
  5. Lulumom

    Finished our Camino and made a video!

  6. Lulumom

    Finished our Camino and made a video!

    Hi all - sorry about the YouTube block! I didn’t realize until this morning and then it took ages to re do with new music. its too bad as I really like the way the songs I originally used worked with the images. Anyway, thanks for hanging in there.
  7. Lulumom

    37-day Camino Frances video

    Okay, let's try this again....:) My first posting to youtube was blocked because I tried to use songs that were not copyright free, including Dom Pater Familias, which is confusing as it is in many other youtube videos. But, in the interest of sharing the video without complications, I just...
  8. Lulumom

    Finished our Camino and made a video!

    We finished our Camino from St. Jean to Santiago just last week. I spent my jet lag hours working on a video of our experience. If you are interested, you can check it out at: Enjoy! Kim
  9. Lulumom

    70L pack overkill?

    Most people will give advice for lightweight packs and they are right for them but I’m offering you a different take in this topic. I have an Osprey 55 and I bought it after watching the Osprey company videos designed to educate people who sell Osprey packs and then visiting REI and a few...
  10. Lulumom

    How long and steep are the downhills going from St Jean to Roncesvalles?

    You’ve been given great advice. Im just throwing in my two cents. I ended up injuring my knee on the downhill to Roncesvalles and it put a huge damper on my Camino for the next two weeks so you are very wise to be checking this out in advance! Here is what I wished I had done in advance: 1)...
  11. Lulumom

    LIVE from the Camino Graffiti...and meaness

    Someone with red spray paint has destroyed each and every km marker on the last two days of the Camino going into Santiago. They also destroyed the beautiful fence of someone who was kind enough to plant gorgeous wisteria for pilgrims to enjoy. They wrote: Love Wins. Sometimes just a heart and a...
  12. Lulumom

    LIVE from the Camino Graffiti...and meaness

    Someone with red spray paint has destroyed each and every km marker on the last two days of the Camino going into Santiago. They also destroyed the beautiful fence of someone who was kind enough to plant gorgeous wisteria for pilgrims to enjoy. They wrote: Love Wins. Sometimes just a heart and a...
  13. Lulumom

    LIVE from the Camino No boundaries for lack of respect

    I’ve been on both sides of this (annoyed by people who seemed inconsiderate to me at the time and also in the position of unintentionally annoying others). If you’re going to sleep in albergues you can’t expect things to be ideal for you and you also need excellent earplugs and eyeshades. I have...
  14. Lulumom

    LIVE from the Camino Graffiti...and meaness

    You are right in that we can’t let it upset us to the point where it interferes with our Camino or inner peace but I believe in social responsibility and have noticed that sometimes these sorts of things will flourish in an environment of tolerance because no one speaks up or feels that they can...
  15. Lulumom

    LIVE from the Camino Graffiti...and meaness

    Would it be possible to have a hand out created explaining why graffiti is disrespectful and asking pilgrims to not do it and speak up if they see it? I feel like if every credential issuing authority had this, it would help. Not perfect but a start. The other thing I was thinking would be to...
  16. Lulumom

    LIVE from the Camino Graffiti...and meaness

    I disagree. The only thing evil needs is for good people to do and say nothing. Is it okay for someone to key your car, knowing your car isn’t permanent? Or should we stand by ‘peacefully’ and allow racism, sexism, hate crimes and so forth because we don’t believe we can or should “change...
  17. Lulumom

    LIVE from the Camino Graffiti...and meaness

    Yesterday I passed a gorgeous stone house and saw that if you looked closely someone had written a “Camino” saying about how “love wins” on the stone in English, in Sharpie. It was a person’s home!!! and this moron decided that their desire to express so-called love was more important than...
  18. Lulumom

    Huge rush from Sarria at the moment

    I’m heading to Sarria today and also feeling annoyed by crowds, litter, graffiti (pilgrim specific and local) and bad attitudes (people who don’t reply to ‘buen camino’ or even “hola”) so I get it. But Its also just a bit surreal for a large group of mostly non-Spaniards to chat about the...
  19. Lulumom

    Pilgrims, pilgrims, and more pilgrims!

    We just left O’Cebreiro - started in SJPdP,- and while the numbers of pilgrims increased from León we have NEVER had trouble getting a bed in an albergue without a reservation. Several times in fact we’ve been the only people in an albergue. Once we and another man ran the albergue when the...
  20. Lulumom

    Physical Recovery

    When we slow down dramatically our bodies interpret this as a signal to conserve energy - there’s a while area of research related to elderly that goes into the physiology of this. I’m not done yet but I have a Fitbit and on the Camino it always reaches 10,000 steps before 9:00am. In my life BC...

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