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I use Gaia GPS. It has many map options (street, topo, biking), tracks and saves your routes, geotags photos along the route, route planning, facebook sharing (family back home loves this).
Can be used in airplane mode (iPhone 8 tracks a Camino day and has enough battery to get through dinner...
Our local Sam’s club has a Zumo machine, so I get a 1/2 gallon of fresh squeezed OJ every week. This winter my wife has been perfecting her Lentil soup with some smoked paprika that I brought back from my last Camino. My brother-in-law cycled the Camino after we returned from our first and he is...
You people are amateurs.
I stream The Way, 6 Ways to Santiago, and Footprints back to back for 35 days.
I only have to carry a couple of beers and a bag of chips to the couch. I would grab a whole 6 pack, but I want the experience to be authentic.
On my way to fridge for more beer, I have to...
Sounds like a meltdown to me. Egressing and [taking your ball] going home is a meltdown. Lucky for you this never happened on one of your Caminos and caused you to execute your meltdown plan.
The Camino can serve as a lesson for life, a mirror if you will. Where else in your life do you have an...
I am a mosquito magnet and have been bitten by mosquitoes with huge welts. My recent Camino I got the mosquitoes, and felt bedbugs on my ankles. Had the telltale 3 bites one both ankles, but no welts or itching.
Is the real problem that no one will turn around and walk BACK 50 or 100 meters?
"I have to stop at this bar, because if I walk another 50m and there isn't another one, I'm sure as hell not going to turn around and walk back, erasing the progress I've made!"
We do the Camino every other year, and spend a year pining in between.
But in tweener years, we do something else, like the West Highland Way, St Olav's, Colorado Trail. Short ones to scratch the itch.
Yes, that happens.
I was in a particularly steep climb on a hot day and struggling to keep my family motivated to keep moving lest we spend the rest of the day baking in the heat, when we passed an informative marker that had been long since destroyed and the text of whatever it was explaining...
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