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  1. Jennifer from Colorado

    FICS Forum: Why Change the 100 km. rule to 300 km.?

    Terry, of COURSE your wife can make the walk - the rule isn't about who can walk it, it's about the Pilgrim Certification process.
  2. Jennifer from Colorado

    FICS Forum: Why Change the 100 km. rule to 300 km.?

    Ok, maybe it's just me, but I went on the Camino AS a pilgrim, in every sense of the word. The whole pilgrimage, beginning actually in Paris at the monument to St Jacques, then to SJPdP, and every step of the way. It was truly a marvelous, reverential, PILGRIM experience....UNTIL I GOT TO...
  3. Jennifer from Colorado

    Thoroughly depressing

    Kiwis, sorry to hear about the depression. Not sure when you walked, but I walked from last week of May until the first week of July, and only had two rainy mornings. There were about four rainy nights, but I didn't care about that because I was asleep. Plus, in June all the flowers are...
  4. Jennifer from Colorado

    Camino Apocalypse

    Gillean, sorry, but in my experience I have discovered that any time someone says "they are loathe to judge," it is typically followed by a harsh judgment. Three points. 1. The Camino de Santiago was created and is maintained by its very definition as a "pilgrimage." A pilgrimage is defined...
  5. Jennifer from Colorado

    Cairns/stacking stones.

    Rebekah, sorry, but could not disagree more. There are brand new, lovely concrete markers, installed in the past two years between Sarria and Santiago. Already the egotistical turistas have magic-markered them, stolen the brass mileage plates, and left empty bottles, cigarette wrappers...
  6. Jennifer from Colorado

    Camino Apocalypse

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  7. Jennifer from Colorado

    Camino Apocalypse

    Thanks, everyone, for reconnecting me to a sense of humor. This had been a very discouraging day, and in the mayhem, I forgot how to laugh. Thanks for the reminder! :p PS...some of the party busses are badly maintained, leaving in their wake a trail of sulfur...:D
  8. Jennifer from Colorado

    Camino Apocalypse

    Castilian, I try to err on the side of compassion, but I am here, right now, watching this. These are party/fiesta caravans. Seeing is believing.:confused:
  9. Jennifer from Colorado

    Camino Apocalypse

    I know, I know...I'm not supposed to care about the "cheaters" on the Camino but I'm 18 kms away from santiago now, and there may be close to hundreds of "pilgrims" invading in taxis and vans and busses. We were warned yesterday that yeah, it's their Camino too, but when we get to Santiago we...
  10. Jennifer from Colorado

    Smuggling Hams back to the USA

    Superior to their American peers? Spoken by someone who's never consumed a Virginian ham. I'm in Spanish ham country as I write this, and sorry...I love Spanish café con leche, and Navarre vino tinto, and Galician celtic music, but sorry...the ham can't hold a candle to Virginia. Dagreen, go...
  11. Jennifer from Colorado

    Smuggling Hams back to the USA

    Why not just buy some of the world's best hams...from Virginia? ??? :rolleyes:
  12. Jennifer from Colorado

    Real Pilgrims

    One last observation... As I hobbled tonight into Burgos, I passed a Pilgrim, a REAL pilgrim, carrying a backpack, accompanied by a patient, caring companion. This REAL pilgrim suffered from a former of muscular dystrophy, and his left leg, which didn't work at all, was dragged behind him by...
  13. Jennifer from Colorado

    Real Pilgrims

    Billy, don't you have to have your credencial stamped 2x/day after Sarria? I understand your irritation but I want to doubt that all these individuals you saw really taxied in the whole last 100kms. At any rate, I am reminded of the NT story Jesus once told about field workers hired at...
  14. Jennifer from Colorado

    FICS Forum: Why Change the 100 km. rule to 300 km.?

    Ciao, UT - I don't believe that the FICS at all is saying that one must be a Catholic. I do believe it IS saying that the intent is primarily for those who approach it for a spiritual or religious purpose. I get the strong sense that those who are only walking the Way for adventure or to lose...
  15. Jennifer from Colorado

    Please don't ask what the weather will be like

    Don, it's not just Americans - I've traveled to 21 countries and lived in 4, and I'm pretty sure it's the human condition. Farmers want to know. Travelers want to know. Children on the way to school want to know. Fishermen/women want to know. Mountain climbers want to know. Poets want to know...
  16. Jennifer from Colorado

    Spanish siesta

    Alison, it's not just about travelers. Spanish economic is tanking partly because international business can't be conducted on siesta time. In larger Spanish cities, people that commute to work struggle with siesta time and a double commute. Spanish single parent working people have...
  17. Jennifer from Colorado

    FICS Forum: Why Change the 100 km. rule to 300 km.?

    Fraluchi - love the camel quote; my father's maxim was "an octopus was a fish designed in a meeting."
  18. Jennifer from Colorado

    Warnings about your (national) passport

    Gene...I know the FRP is a really large group, but I attend ALL your functions!!! :-) You even hooked me up with Kris as a Camino Tutor! Front Range Pilgrims rock! Ultreia!!
  19. Jennifer from Colorado

    Warnings about your (national) passport

    Anemone, not "always." Often, but definitely not "always." Every country has their own requirements - France has just upped theirs from 4 to 6 months. Central America, and most of South America - they only require it to be active the day you enter. Cuba now requires 6 months, but Japan only...
  20. Jennifer from Colorado

    Warnings about your (national) passport

    This is an increased requirement in France, which used to be four months. However, most of my traveling has been in 3rd world countries which required....one day!

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