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  1. tploomis

    GPS vs Smart Phone for route tracking

    Once you have internet access, for example a WiFi connection at an albergue (or if you have data turned on while walking) a map of you path downloads. I have all the maps of each day of the Camino on my Runkeeper. The app is free, so you should download it and try it out. Walk with RunKeeper...
  2. tploomis

    GPS vs Smart Phone for route tracking

    I used RunKeeper (free app), which is compatible with android and IPhone. I used it with data off, but still using GPS (not in Airplane mode), and it would show me miles walked, hours/minutes walked, and average speed, as I was walking. When I got to a WiFi source, a map of where I had been for...
  3. tploomis

    Its NOT a 'real' Camino experience if . . .

    Maybe I'm reading different threads than you, but most of what I hear is people saying however you want to do your camino is up to you, and there are ubiquitous admonitions to not be judgmental of how others do it. However, if somebody somewhere should express the opinion that it is unacceptable...
  4. tploomis

    Collective nouns on the Camino :D

    A passel of pilgrims.
  5. tploomis

    Uphill and Downhill

    At some point uphill, downhill, and flat became nearly the same for me.
  6. tploomis

    How young is too young to walk alone?

    Even if wrongfully accused, it will make a great story in years to come. I wouldn't worry too much about hypothetical remote possibilities. The more you describe your kids, the more I think they are up to the challenge.
  7. tploomis

    How young is too young to walk alone?

    I think whether this is possible and/or a good idea or not is dependent on the maturity levels of your sons. I don't know them, but I have to suspect they're pretty mature with the number of kilometers they have under their feet and growing up in a family where these kinds of activities are...
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    Before or after Camino

    I know you have already decided to go to Turkey afterwards. I would like to add that an additional advantage to doing the Camino first, if you end up taking longer to do the Camino, you can take the time because the return flight is not a pressing deadline. We scheduled in two extra weeks at the...
  9. tploomis

    Things I learned on the Inca Trail

    On the other hand there are similarities between doing the Camino and sitting in a wheelchair in a nursing home.
  10. tploomis

    A Different Angle on the 'Weight Debate'

    I would say the Camino is a great place for ultra-planners to discover the pleasures of spontaneity and for the ultra-spontaneous to discover the pleasures of planning.
  11. tploomis

    What's a pilgrim?

    I would say this is well worth pondering, whether it has been done before or not.
  12. tploomis

    A Different Angle on the 'Weight Debate'

    Losing weight, learning Spanish, and getting fit all in four months is going to be quite an undertaking! Your enthusiasm for the Camino will probably get you down the road a ways, but I would recommend moderation so that you do not get injured. I also think that of those three priorities...
  13. tploomis

    Meeting up with a group of friends who start at a later point on the camino

    Totally agree with this. Of course, that might sound hypocritical to those who know our family including three teens at the time walked together in 2012 - but our purpose then was less about pilgrimage and more about dipping our toes in the water and experiencing something different together as...
  14. tploomis

    Severe depression and the Camino

    If this were her idea, I would be cautiously optimistic, but since this is your idea for her, I am far less so.
  15. tploomis

    Meeting up with a group of friends who start at a later point on the camino

    Buen Camino This seems like a very typical dilemma, not only on the Camino, but in other aspects of life as well. I may be misunderstanding, but this seems like the dilemma of "I want to do what I want to do because it is important to me" vs. "I have a responsibility to others and need to...
  16. tploomis

    Is hiking the Camino at 17 to young?

    There should be no problems walking the Camino at 17. My son hiked the Appalachian Trail solo at 17. Nobody on the trail found anything remarkable about this, and his age was never even commented on by other hikers. I think walking the Camino independent of parents or other guardian figures (or...
  17. tploomis

    The truth about bed bugs?

    Three of us hiked the Camino in Fall, 2013. We had Permethrin treated sleeping bag liners, and we sprayed our backpacks as well. I was less than conscientious about using my liner. My wife was bitten on two different occasions. The other two of us were never bitten. It makes me think that the...
  18. tploomis

    Attitude

    An important part of the forum for me is the sense of community that it provides. That happens because people throw out ideas and questions, many that have been expressed before, and others react to it. We're all putting out our ideas and feelings and others, who care to, are responding. That is...
  19. tploomis

    Start of my Cancer Camino

    Gitti, I'm thinking of you as you go through this tough, tough time. Your story stirs a lot of personal memories for me. My thoughts will be with you as you go down this new road.
  20. tploomis

    Masterpiece Mystery/Camino

    Hathaway turns back one village prior to Santiago and walks back to England. His walk was one of self-discovery, not a pilgrimage. When I heard him describe his walk, my first reaction was, "I wish I had done it that way."

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