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  1. tploomis

    300 km instead of 100?

    I have no interest in the the Compostela or the rules related to who gets one and who doesn't. My walk was my walk for my reasons. Nobody else's opinion about it, including that reflected by an awarding of a Compostela or not, matters to me at all.
  2. tploomis

    Single Greatest Threat to Failure

    It was easy in the beginning for me to push myself further than was good for me. I was a slower walker, and frequently had the sensation of the pack of people behind me surging over me like a wave. I got anxious and started thinking I needed to go faster and further. Nothing was further from the...
  3. tploomis

    Trepidatious Wife

    On training walks walk a little behind her and comment occasionally about how you're having trouble keeping up. Pretty soon both of you will start believing it, and your roles will be reversed! I tried this with my wife, and the results were amazing. Of course I then had to live with being the...
  4. tploomis

    Training? Absolutely necessary?

    If you are in decent shape, I think the Camino can be walked without training, but there are pitfalls to that approach. The biggest threat to completing the Camino, in my opinion, is anxiety about whether one can do it or not, which leads to pushing and injury. Somebody that has not trained is...
  5. tploomis

    How many rest days did you take & where did you take them?

    We took extra days in Burgos, Logronos, and Leon to see these wonderful cities, and we took one more rest day in Puente de Orbigo, due to a stomach flu.
  6. tploomis

    Bladders or Bottles

    I like the convenience of a bladder, but there are two drawbacks for me. First, I'm never really sure how much I've drunk, and I'm often surprised at how much water is still in the bladder at the end of the day. The opposite, thinking there is plenty of water in there and suddenly I'm sucking...
  7. tploomis

    Publicly humiliated for snoring

    If snorers bothered me, it only meant I hadn't walked enough that day.
  8. tploomis

    One or Two Stamps?

    We had one stamp a day from Sarria on, just as there was one stamp a day from SJPP. Nobody in the pilgrims' office in Santiago questioned that. They did ask me about my request for a secular Compostela. The very kind lady asked me what my motivations were for walking the Camino, and I said they...
  9. tploomis

    Starting in 2 days but still have some questions.... eeeeep

    Our first night in Spain was in Pamplona, and we stayed in a hotel. Don't miss out on the bar/tapas/pinxchos evening scene in the Pamplona old section. That was an incredible introduction to Spain. What a wonderful experience -- great ambience, friendly atmosphere, families with their kids out...
  10. tploomis

    A Muslim walking the Camino?

    I think the world would be a better place if we could get the leaders of the world to walk the Camino together. The Camino experience draws people together. We're all in this together.
  11. tploomis

    Electric Bike Camino Frances

    As a walker on the Camino I was not bothered by the occasional biker passing me. Sure, occasionally one of them seemed a bit wild-eyed, but none was any kind of threat to my health or safety. I don't see why we can't all share the path. The diversity of those doing the Camino is part of its...
  12. tploomis

    Electric Bike Camino Frances

    My hat is off to anybody who undertakes biking from Saint Jean Pied du Port to Santiago. It might go faster than walking, but a day in the mountains on a bike is immeasurably harder than a day in the mountains on foot. I bicycled across the United States a few years ago, and any one day of that...
  13. tploomis

    A Muslim walking the Camino?

    The people walking the Camino are a very diverse community, including people of all faiths and those with none at all. Everybody is walking for his own reason, whatever that might be, and you will feel welcomed, Mahmud!
  14. tploomis

    Winter/spring essentials

    Sunscreen!
  15. tploomis

    That movie

    I found the secondary characters in The Way to be rather two dimensional, and there were none I could closely identify with. At least three secondary characters had oral fixations, which seems too heavily weighted on that side -- the Dutch glutton, the female chain smoker, and the Irish wannabe...
  16. tploomis

    That movie

    I hadn't thought of the Wizard of Oz analogy -- thanks for that!
  17. tploomis

    O Cebreiro in the snow

    Gorgeous! But there seemed to be some kind of annoying, mechanical flying insect that kept popping up on my screen!
  18. tploomis

    I don't want to just be an 'Extra' in someone else's Camino...

    My experience of the socialization aspect of the Camino is that I had a nice mix of being alone with my thoughts and opportunities to talk with others. The individual pilgrim has control of that, unless there are problems with setting boundaries, in which case a person might end up having...
  19. tploomis

    Trekking Poles or Staff???

    I never walked a step, whether up, down, or flat, without using trekking poles, and I'm pleased to be out on the tail of the bell shaped curve on that issue. I too saw many with poles tucked in their packs. I also saw many using poles, but doing so ineffectively. I saw people with wooden staffs...
  20. tploomis

    Camino Frances Guide or things Brierley never told you

    I would like to make a small plea for shorts and short sleeved shirts never being preferable, unless you are indoors. Skin cancers are epidemic, and walking a camino means days of exposure to the sun. It is of utmost importance to be protected, top and bottom. That sunburn, or even that tan, has...

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