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  1. Texas Walker

    Last night I learned I snore...

    IMHO, everybody snores. Not everybody knows that they snore. Side sleeping helps. adequate hydration--not a full bottle of wine but water before bed--probably helps. Not being stuffed up in the head helps. I don't care about snorers, I think that if someone wants to sleep in absolute quiet the...
  2. Texas Walker

    Look behind you!!

    The nice Galilean was not the guy with the 4 friends, it was the guy who had been lying on the bed that had 4 friends. :) (edited for clarity)
  3. Texas Walker

    Privacy in the shower

    There seem to be more "gang showers" for guys than for girls. Nonetheless, the ladies' shower in Ponte de Lima muni albergue was very definitely a "communal" experience! Haven't had that since junior high school. Putting my dry clothes on the windowsill and going to the spigot to get clean. And...
  4. Texas Walker

    Compostela requirements clarification please

    Original post was questioning why the required walk is teh *last* 100km, they thought that since they'd walked 100km somewhen on the trail it should be enough.
  5. Texas Walker

    Compostela requirements clarification please

    You are mistaken. If you take taxis instead of walking the last 100km, you will not be counted as coming on foot.
  6. Texas Walker

    Advance bookings!!! (Are they ruining the Camino?)

    I see a clue here. Many people use Mr. Brierly's book, which is informative and useful, but they think that they have to stop at the towns he identifies as end of stages. One of the best things that happened on our first Camino walk, in 2014, was arriving at the end town of Belorado at about 11...
  7. Texas Walker

    Compostela requirements clarification please

    The instructions are on your credencial, just follow them. In my experience, often the hospitaleros are careful to remind you that their albergue is the beginning of the 2 stamps a day zone. There is no need to permutate. One of the lessons of the Camino is that the pilgrim is not in control.
  8. Texas Walker

    Needing a livestock refresher course

    Okay I don't live on a ranch or farm but the beef pictured looked like a steer to me. (Bulls have dangly bits.) I learned on our Camino Salvador and Primitivo to act like the herder, who has a stick that he/she waves. The cattle understand that and let you through. BC
  9. Texas Walker

    Legends on the Camino

    Ah, yes, that movie. The character says he's oh so knowledgeable and yet he misses the significance of the time and place of the Last Supper. It's not a poor hovel, nor a cast-off dish. The place belongs to someone who has assets, including a fairly large upper room. (And servants, remember...
  10. Texas Walker

    How many pilgrims do not ask for a Compostela after their Camino?

    Well, what works for you, works for you. Our first Camino walk was the Frances, in 2014. I had so much pain on that walk. And it was the first installment on our lessons that we are not in control, God is in control, and we got our Vompostelas. We framed them. And on later Camino walks, we got...
  11. Texas Walker

    How many pilgrims do not ask for a Compostela after their Camino?

    Yes.
  12. Texas Walker

    Blogging help needed!

    Following on with these thoughts, have you considered using your phone's photo editing features, if they exist, to crop out a lot of unnecessary pebbles/grass/leaves at the sides of the photo? That background detail uses a lot of little bits n bytes. And modern phones make such huge photo files...
  13. Texas Walker

    Using Whatsapp to message albergues

    I don't text message anyone in Spain from my phone. Too complicated to set up foreign use of the account. I am not sure the "spain phone" has texting, either. Your point is good here. But on the subject of the Whatsapp, as I'm not going to use it while walking--who wants to be "that pilgrim"...
  14. Texas Walker

    Using Whatsapp to message albergues

    Thank you all for discussing the whole "experience" of the Whatsapp. I'm still on the fence about adding it to my Samsung phone. The only real benefit I have seen so far is the larger number of people that can be contacted in a group message, compared to my Messages app that came with the phone...
  15. Texas Walker

    Strangest food & drink on the Camino

    Glochids. Sometimes pouring peroxide over the area helps.
  16. Texas Walker

    Strangest food & drink on the Camino

    Most of the gulas in spain are created from fish meat, a la the "crab legs" often found in US supermarket chiller cases. Sometimes the vendors brag about the high quality of the fish they make their gulas from!
  17. Texas Walker

    Unattended Pack

    You didn't have the credencial in a ziplock bag while in your pocket? I always put mine in something that will keep it dry, because not only will my waist pack maybe get rained on, the water bottle I carry may sweat all over the pouch in the bargain.
  18. Texas Walker

    Unattended Pack

    You don't have to be a pilgrim to leave your stuff behind someplace...ahem...teenaged daughters...just hang your waist pouch on the door of the restroom, so you have to grab it to get out. Hand it from your knee at the table in a fast food joint or restaurant, so you can't get up without...
  19. Texas Walker

    These missing persons posts....

    When I and my sweetie went wandering off on the Frances the first time, my relatives were very worried that we weren't going on a guided tour. I set up a blog so they could see that we hadn't fallen off a cliff. On the days, back then, when the albergue computer couldn't reach the internet, but...
  20. Texas Walker

    Two step bank verification texts

    Is this something like "last call for alcohol" which the bartender (in Texas) shouts out just before closing?

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