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  1. Gary Martin

    COVID Trouble contacting Orisson.

    It’s spring. The trees are turning green. Lawnmowers or humming along in the suburbs. And the pilgrims are unsuccessfully trying to contact Orison. The world seems to be getting more back to normal today.
  2. Gary Martin

    Necessary Sundries

    When you need toilet paper your world is much less complicated if have arranged to have a supply at hand. (So to speak). I carry a zip lock quart freezer bag with a few feet of folded strong -when-wet paper towels. In the same bag I include some lighter zip bags to safely carry soiled towels to...
  3. Gary Martin

    Solo 40th Bivy

    You should have no problems. The extra weight it is well worth having the option of camping. I carry a light down sleeping bag, A bivy bag, and a quarter inch foam pad cut down to hips and shoulders. I’ve never needed a tent But I like to sleep out in fair weather and pay for a roof if it looks...
  4. Gary Martin

    2021 Camino Frances - will be more expensive !

    One of my most memorable Camino experiences involved a Michelin starred restaurant on the chemin piemont about six years ago. The restaurant had evidently volunteered for pilgrim duty. I was referred to the location by the visitor center and when I arrived I was lead through the dining room...
  5. Gary Martin

    some advice

    Nili You seem to have stirred up a hornets nest of strong and contradictory opinions. I (4 caminos) and a friend (2 caminos) walked the Francis last year in identical shoes except that he chose Gore-Tex. They were both Lone peak 4s and were purchased at the same time shortly before the Camino...
  6. Gary Martin

    Good News. One Pilgrim Missing Between SJPP and Roncesvalles is found today!

    Some people have expressed the opinion that this foolish and thoughtless woman should be required to pay for her rescue attempt. I have to strongly disagree for the following reasons. If people find themselves in a dangerous situation because of poor judgment or bad luck they will make a...
  7. Gary Martin

    Does CF feel like a crowded theme park now?

    I read your question again I walked in May both years.
  8. Gary Martin

    Does CF feel like a crowded theme park now?

    Hi Tom My experience in 92 as I recall was that the pilgrims all stayed in a limited number of dedicated pilgrim lodgings. They tended to be a days walk apart and very inexpensive. If one was fill the only options in the larger towns was a hotel at 10 times the price or in the smaller towns...
  9. Gary Martin

    Does CF feel like a crowded theme park now?

  10. Gary Martin

    Does CF feel like a crowded theme park now?

    I first walked the Camino Frances in 92 I think. I avoided repeating that Camino for the same reasons that you mentioned. I didn’t want to spoil that memory of that first magical walk. Then in 2014 I joined the Camino Frances at SJPDP after walking about 450 miles on the Arles and Piemonte. (...

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