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    Returning Home & Preventing a Bedbug Infestation!

    Yeah, I would throw stuff out. I know it sucks, and it's wasteful, but the cost of exterminating them from your home is WAY more than the cost of a new pack or new pair of shorts. Also you might end up sending even more things to landfill if it comes to an apartment infestation. On my first...
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    Camino Dating

    I've had a number of 'dalliances' on the Camino (and fended some off as well), but I don't think there has ever been a camino I've walked where I haven't witnessed people falling in love and, in a number of cases, staying that way. Last summer's walk, it was a couple who initially couldn't stand...
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    Camino Dating

    Haha oh damn. This resonated.
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    Inviting reflections on the wider costs of walking a Camino

    I struggle with this as well, and not just in relation to the Camino, but with all the travelling that I do. My immediate family is large and spread out across the four corners of North America. I'm Canadian and half of my best friends live on the west coast, while I'm on the east coast. Our...
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    Poll Why did you have to abandon your Camino? Anonymous

    TW: suicide I left a camino (Frances) halfway through last year, after discovering a fellow pilgrim in the throes of a suicide attempt. With the help of a doctor (who just happened to be walking by...because camino magic) we got him to safety, but after another week on the trail, I was just...
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    Poll Why did you have to abandon your Camino? Anonymous

    I read and loved this piece! Thank you!
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    What’s going on?

    I'm heading out in a few weeks to walk the Francés (to Léon)/Salvador/Primitivo, and I'm going to wing it, because I haven't had time to plan and I didn't decide where I was going to walk until this past wknd! I'll book sthg for SJPP and that's about it. Orisson is already way booked up, so it...
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    Bed bugs in El Acebo!

    Oh man, believe it or not, El Acebo is where I had BRUTAL bed bugs in 2013...I will honestly never stop in that town again. I ended up sleeping outside in a lounge chair while critters rustled in the garbage cans next to me. One good thing about it is that I learned that night that bedbugs are...
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    A hard landing upon returning home

    Like others have said, the fact that you feel out of sorts is a sign that a shift has happened - but these things can take a long time to materialize. For my part, the resonances of my first camino (ten years ago) are still being mined. It reminds me a little bit of a friend of mine who...
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    Lots of Canadians on this forum?!

    I feel like I never go *anywhere* without meeting a fellow Canadian (why are we everywhere), and I would tend to agree that it feels disproportionately Canadian on the Camino. Definitely a high representative pop of pilgrims from Quebec, even though this province is aggressively secular now...
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    Having spouse join for final 100km, or meet in Santiago - I’m thinking it’s not a great idea…

    Sometimes I call a friend and say, "I want to do X, but this person wants me to do Y. What should I do?" My friend knows that what I need is permission. She says, "Here, I'm giving you this card. It says you get to do whatever you think/feel/know is best for you, no justifications, no excuses."...
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    The Camino Isn’t A Pilgrimage Anymore

    The Camino, like any pilgrimage route, like any landscape, like any trail replete with history (good, bad, and ugly), is much bigger than any single person walking it. Questioning the motives of others is tempting (and we have all done it!), but not, to my mind, in keeping with the spirit of a...
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    Questioning Rule 1

    I am planning to just be firm in my native tongue (or in any other language that's necessary)! I hope to meet and converse with many lovely pilgrims along the way, but I'll be damned (perhaps literally? haha) if I let some blowhard hijack my experience. I'm planning to dedicate a good deal of...

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