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  1. Old Hillwalker

    Listening to Music/Audiobooks/Podcasts while making the pilgrimage?

    Being able to hear cyclists coming up on you from behind is a survival thing.
  2. Old Hillwalker

    If at first you don't succeed, try-try again and again, and again....

  3. Old Hillwalker

    Documenting the Journey

    Four years ago a Korean Gentleman (BK Lee) used a chest mounted 3 axis video camera (REMOVU K1) to record essentially every step he made on the Camino Frances. His 34 daily videos, located on Youtube are each around 5 hours long. I once viewed them over a 4 month period as daily walking, hour...
  4. Old Hillwalker

    Addicted to Spain

    I know that I am taking a risk. But as one of the prior commenters said. "death lasts a long time". Actually as I think about it, Risk was my life for twenty years. I am a retired military Bomb Disposal Technician (EOD) who after retirement went into education and taught middle-school for 26...
  5. Old Hillwalker

    Addicted to Spain

    I've been working on my Spanish language acquisition bit by bit over the past ten years. I have a pretty large vocabulary, but complete sentence linkage and correct syntax is pretty much not there yet. I would surely prefer a small town or village since that is where I have been living for the...
  6. Old Hillwalker

    Addicted to Spain

    Thank you for the advice and information. I appreciate that. I have a tenuous link to Spain as I am distantly related to Victoria Eugenie Julia Ena of Battenberg, Queen of Spain as the wife of King Alfonso XIII. Not that means a whit. :)
  7. Old Hillwalker

    Addicted to Spain

    Thanks Rebekah. I have been following your posts for quite a while now and enjoy reading your contributions.
  8. Old Hillwalker

    Addicted to Spain

    Probably not Since My favorite color is green, not blue or brown :)
  9. Old Hillwalker

    Addicted to Spain

    I'm already old and will be 84 in the Spring of 24. I will have nobody here in the States, so when I go, I go. I have lived alone since 2003 and love it. I have hiked solo across the globe for the past 43 years.
  10. Old Hillwalker

    Addicted to Spain

    If I put my property on the market here in Maine, May and June are prime months in which to do so. Our winters here can be very cold and snowy (see picture). However, I do need to spend the early winter here at home for 2023 - 24. Thinking I may be able to get a little relief from snow and ice...
  11. Old Hillwalker

    Addicted to Spain

    I am seriously considering selling my house and relocating to Spain. At my age, owning a home will become problematic due to my increasing age and the home's age. My house is small, but beautifully located on 25 acres of mature woodlands with mountain views and on top of a ridge here in Western...
  12. Old Hillwalker

    If at first you don't succeed, try-try again and again, and again....

    I walked my first Camino in September of 2013 at the age of 74. I was quite fit from years of hiking and backpacking in my home state of New Hampshire, but in no way a true athlete. However I walked from SJPDP to Santiago in 32 days with two days off in the middle. Easy peasy. The next summer I...
  13. Old Hillwalker

    Any thoughts about bed bugs?

    You're absolutely correct. I had forgotten. Lo Seinto ;)
  14. Old Hillwalker

    Any thoughts about bed bugs?

    This September will be my seventh visit to Spain, walking on various Caminos. I have found that finding a "Hot" clothes dryer has been a rare thing for me. Large towns and cities OK, but villages and Albergues, not so much. Often there will be a clothes washer, and water extractor, but no...
  15. Old Hillwalker

    Retrieving my former member ID

    On February 27 2011 I joined the forums as Old Hillwalker. During the intervening years to today I have walked 3 Caminos, and spent parts of two summers backpacking in the GR 11. During this time, I relocated within the Northeast US, changed email addresses and somehow lost my original Forum...
  16. Old Hillwalker

    Movie "The Camino Voyage" on Amazon Prime

    I just finished it this afternoon. Next time I will pay to watch it. The ads are presented in barely endurable numbers and length. There was nothing at all about then walking the Camino Inglis. I believe they took automobiles from A Coruna to Santiago. Quite an ocean adventure and an...
  17. Old Hillwalker

    Delivery of purchases online

    In 2019 I had some photographic equipment shipped from Turkey to Ivar's address with no problem. I did check with him first though.
  18. Old Hillwalker

    Post a Picture of Shoes or Boots

    Botas at Albergue Triacastela and the biggest Dog feet I have ever seen. Human's foot was size 14 US (48 EU)
  19. Old Hillwalker

    Exploring Camino de Torres with Google Earth and Maps

    I'm retired, a widower of 20 years and living alone on a mountain ridgetop in the mountains of Maine, USA (N44.55162 W70.32107). Over the past few days I have begun my research in preparation for walking the Camino de Torres from Salamanca, Spain, to and through Portugal, joining the...
  20. Old Hillwalker

    An alternative system for Albergues

    You took taxis? I walked.

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