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  1. MesaWalker

    Latest Camino Fad .

    On a windy day you might be able to float back to your home, wherever it might be, and save the airfare.
  2. MesaWalker

    What do you wish you had worried less about?

    I worried too much about the ability to communicate in Spanish. That's not about wishing that I had studied less - I wish I had studied more. But once in Spain, you find a way to communicate, regardless of your level of Spanish fluency (or lack thereof), especially with the many kind people of...
  3. MesaWalker

    The one thing I should have done before I left for the Camino

    Don't forget to unplug the Ferris wheel and the lights on your landing strip in the backyard. ;o)
  4. MesaWalker

    The one thing I should have done before I left for the Camino

    On an approximately 10-week camino last year, I researched whether I needed to put a fuel stablizer in the gas tank of our cars that were going to remain unused while we were gone. That time frame was borderline - if it had been three full months I would have done it. But I learned that we...
  5. MesaWalker

    Inviting reflections on the wider costs of walking a Camino

    These are very good thoughts, and it is a conundrum. On the one hand, my wife and I have gone on two long caminos (roughly 5 weeks and 9 weeks), and we believe that our environmental impact while walking the Camino is significantly less than our environmental impact at home, when taking into...
  6. MesaWalker

    Newbie looking for some tips

    Thanks for your explanation, jakewalk. It probably would be easier to go the normal direction. I don't think it's disrespectful to walk backwards, but few do it and there are good reasons. Walking it northward from Sevilla would give you more flexibility - if you want to walk longer or...
  7. MesaWalker

    Newbie looking for some tips

    We took six days to walk from Sevilla to Zafra, which is a decent-sized city with an interesting casco (old town). There should be good transportation options to get there. You would go through some very interesting towns, including the amazing Roman ruins at Italica on the last day before...
  8. MesaWalker

    A long (winding) road.

    On the way to Utrera on the Via Serrana, September 2023.
  9. MesaWalker

    A long (winding) road.

    Aliens teleported all the pilgrims to another solar system? Or wasn't there a Mavel superhero movie where almost everyone disintegrated all at once into dust? Could that have happened here?
  10. MesaWalker

    A long (winding) road.

    On the Camino Sanabrés on the way to Xunqueira de Ambía.
  11. MesaWalker

    A long (winding) road.

    These glorious photos remind me of the last three stanzas of the J.R.R. Tolkien poem, "The Roads Go Ever On": The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with weary feet, Until it joins some larger...
  12. MesaWalker

    A long (winding) road.

    Scenes from the Via Serrana, Via de la Plata and the Camino Sanabrés.
  13. MesaWalker

    A day on my Camino…

    Wonderful post! I bet you'll cherish that moment for the rest of your life! It is such a gift of walking a camino to have moments of leaving the past and the future behind and just being in the present and marveling at nature, the resilience of our bodies and spirits - of reveling in, and...
  14. MesaWalker

    One Day Walk out of Santiago ?

    Walking the last day of the Sanabrés to Santiago from the south was pretty. But I don't remember any particular destination at the start of that day. Different from that, though, we rented a car with an extra day in Santiago to drive to the enormous monastery at Oseira to take the last tour...
  15. MesaWalker

    Carry your backpack please.

    The original question on this thread seems to be focused on routes that have bag transport. Is this only the CF, or maybe the Camino Portugues and Norte as well (and maybe the Camino Finisterre) at the right time of year? I am curious which routes offer bag transport. Last fall we walked the...
  16. MesaWalker

    Rest Days/Stops

    We planned out CF trip figuring an average of one rest day per week (my wife and I were in our early 60s, so thought the muscles could use a once-a-week break). Then we just allocated those days to places we thought would be interesting and were willing to vary the days off to be able to see...
  17. MesaWalker

    Looking for a *good* online map/image that shows *all* the camino routes in Spain

    This is hugely helpful. I'm walking the Via Serrana this fall before walking the VdlP. The Dutch map is the first offline gps map I've found that shows the entire Via Serrana. Thank you, Kevin Considine!
  18. MesaWalker

    Best ATM Debit Card

    That sounds like an AmEx credit card. If you set up a Schwab online bank account, they have a Charles Schwab Bank VISA debit card. As far as I can tell, no monthly or annual fees, monthly ATM fee reimbursement, etc.
  19. MesaWalker

    Luggage Transport - Why?

    This is a partial diversion (apologies!), but we walked a part of the Camino Francés (about 8 days) with a friend who was using a travel & baggage transport service. We found that every hotel he stayed in serviced exclusively only pilgrims booked through travel companies. So we could never...
  20. MesaWalker

    Photo book or blog documenting your camino

    I used PolarSteps on my last camino and really liked it. It doesn't create any sort of public blog - you have anyone you want to follow you create an account on the App and then click to follow you. Uploads text and photos, which I did daily on the camino. All of that is free. It made a...

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