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  1. TrvlDad1

    What's a Slow Walker?

    I’m a “normal” walker, that being whatever I feel like that day or hour.
  2. TrvlDad1

    Electrolytes

    I started having electrolyte issues at about 70 YO. After a trip to the ER for dizziness and rapid pulse after a jog, I started using Nuun tablets in a bottle of water. They work fine and are easy to carry; I buy the box of 8 ten-count tubes online. Not the most flavorful, but works.
  3. TrvlDad1

    Camino etiquette - passing others on less-busy caminos

    I like to walk in the early Spring when it’s somewhat uncrowded, especially in poor weather or outside the very minor surge of that time. Approaching from behind, I usually try to make enough noise to be known, but also to make some pleasant comment as I pass…about the weather, scenery, etc. If...
  4. TrvlDad1

    Compostela total for the year so far now over 400,000

    Or any studies on what I would call the five-mile faux Compostela crowd. I know a family that arranged a Sarria-Santiago tour and walked a total of maybe 25 miles. It would seem hard to “police” for these if they stop at the right places and get two stamps a day.
  5. TrvlDad1

    Musical instruments on the Camino.

    Good idea. If I strike up my ukulele, I’ll never have to worry about finding space in an otherwise full albergue.
  6. TrvlDad1

    Walking the Camino at age 95!

    I’m counting on hope and bionics!!!
  7. TrvlDad1

    My pilgrimage in a word: extraordinary! Yours?

    My thoughts exactly when I finished my first Camino in 2017. But I was back a year later and every year since except 2020. My Caminos are now the standard by which I measure the spirituality, relevance and pleasure of all other trips. I’ll never complete my “bucket list” or even all the Caminos...
  8. TrvlDad1

    I guess it was meant to be…

    Somehow, I doubt the 87,000 new US IRS agents are bring hired entirely for this purpose.
  9. TrvlDad1

    At 62 thinking of getting my first tattoo, A Tau Cross?

    Now where exactly do I want to position that yellow arrow? :)
  10. TrvlDad1

    At 62 thinking of getting my first tattoo, A Tau Cross?

    Sounds young to me, unfortunately or perhaps fortunately.
  11. TrvlDad1

    Wild swimming

    RE: aqueducts, do they use recycled water, i. e., without insecticides removed? Same for rivers in agricultural areas?
  12. TrvlDad1

    At 62 thinking of getting my first tattoo, A Tau Cross?

    That pretty rose when you were young becomes a dull, long stem rose over time.
  13. TrvlDad1

    Where do ( did ) you walk ( locally ) in 2022?

    I often have these doubts after local walks. I assume it's the repetition and stress of routine daily life. Then I'm constantly amazed at the energy I have and distances I cover on the Camino (may it continue!).
  14. TrvlDad1

    Where do ( did ) you walk ( locally ) in 2022?

    A bit over six miles of wandering on a patchwork of trails along Peachtree Creek. Intended to walk 7.5 miles, but the gluhwein called and said six miles would qualify.
  15. TrvlDad1

    Where do ( did ) you walk ( locally ) in 2022?

    Yesterdays short walk on the Northwest Beltline PATH along Tanyard creek where the Common Grackles are holding their annual winter conclave, but thankfully not above my cars (and head) and our election mess has made its way into the creek.
  16. TrvlDad1

    Where do ( did ) you walk ( locally ) in 2022?

    P.S. With runners, I take an extra pair of marino wool socks (three on Camino) to always have a clean dry pair. With boots, just two.
  17. TrvlDad1

    Where do ( did ) you walk ( locally ) in 2022?

    I wear Brooks Dyad runners; I’ve found they are the best fit. They and my feet get soaked but dry out overnight, and it's not cold here. For cold or rough, hilly walks, I wear boots. I wore the runners for a two week camino, Burgos to Rabanal, last March in similar weather and didn’t get...
  18. TrvlDad1

    Where do ( did ) you walk ( locally ) in 2022?

    A wet and puddle-wonderful (apologies e.e.) 5-mile walk along the Chattahoochee where feathers and web feet were de rigueur today. Then there was a poor soul in a carapace who was probably flooded out of its burrow from the recent heavy rains, and an old fool in an Altus with no excuse except a...
  19. TrvlDad1

    Where do ( did ) you walk ( locally ) in 2022?

    Are the old archived books available to the public on demand or do you have to reserve/qualify/etc.? What a great resource.
  20. TrvlDad1

    Wine geeks on Camino

    I sent my daughter to a school semester in Adelaide and the family she stayed with had a Friday night neighborhood wine bottling party. One picked up the bulk wine, one got a few bottles and corks, and they proceeded to drink most of it. Almost never got her to come home.

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