Anyone else already rocking a Pilgrim's Tan?

[pierrenaples]

We have been training since October, I think my feet and ankles are the only sun free areas left.
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[naplesdon]

Sitting by my pool in Naples, I have developed two sun free areas:
1.) top of head (I wear a ball cap)
2.) my groin (I wear a Speedo)

 

[domigee]

 

[Tassie Kaz]

Oh...I think you can go much deeper than that colour combo @pierrenaples...
The watch (or fitness tracker) band of pearly-white skin on my left wrist is always my trade mark.

 

[Bill's_Walking]

Sweet! I'm still pasty white.

 

[Marbe2]

Honestly, I protect my skin from sunlight and limit exposure to direct sunlight to about 15 - 20 minutes a day!

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Yep, that's it. When on the Camino I eventually develop a Pilgrim's tan; it's a version of what is called a Farmer's tan. The left side of my face developed two smallish brown spots after a few Caminos even though I wear a hat. I think it is because walking SW in spring my face is exposed more to the sun's rays on the side, in addition to being a "bit" older.

 

[maryloufrommadison]

Well, I'm training in Wisconsin, and when I get to the Camino next month, you will know me by my deathly pallor!

 

[Elle Bieling]

Sorry, I have an all-over tan, was just in Puerto Rico, walking the nude beaches! NOT!!

 

[t2andreo]

Sitting by my pool in Naples, I have developed two sun free areas:
1.) top of head (I wear a ball cap)
2.) my groin (I wear a Speedo)

Almost TMI - but funny. I live on the other (East) coast of Florida.

Here, we have one wardrobe all year - shorts and t-shirts with sandals. I sport a Camino tan year-round.

 

[Former member 92300]

We have been training since October, I think my feet and ankles are the only sun free areas left.
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Haha... just last week I decided I need to start prepping more for my end of May Camino. For me - this definitely includes getting some sun exposure! I need to prep my skin so I don't burn on the Camino. I am a redhead with freckles - this is essential to prevent me from frying and being miserable.

 

[Former member 99816]

A golfer's tan is dark all over except the one hand where you wear a glove.

 

[edtrudeau]

Cruze de ferro tomorrow. Here’s my tan. Long sleeves and pole straps!

 

[VNwalking]

No.
I've done enough damage to my skin for a lifetime. Now I hide from the sun.

 

[Turga]

my feet and ankles are the only sun free areas left.

I wonder if anyone else is walking with a nude behind?

 

[koknesis]

We have been training since October, I think my feet and ankles are the only sun free areas left.
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No chance to improve the tan part yet, but that doesn’t prevent to work meanwhile on pole handling techniques

 

[Camino Chrissy]

A golfer's tan is dark all over except the one hand where you wear a glove.

A family Christmas gift exchange had me looking for requested golfer's gloves for my brother-in-law...I had assumed I was shopping for a matching "pair".

 

[Scott Fraser]

Sitting by my pool in Naples, I have developed two sun free areas:
1.) top of head (I wear a ball cap)
2.) my groin (I wear a Speedo)

We believe you, Don. No need for photos.

 

[naplesdon]

A golfer's tan is dark all over except the one hand where you wear a glove.

You play shoeless at a nude golf course?

 

[t2andreo]

I know Don well enough to chuckle (A LOT) at the thought of him in a Speedo at his pool. Then again, he likely looks better than me.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

I know Don well enough to chuckle (A LOT) at the thought of him in a Speedo at his pool. Then again, he likely looks better than me.

Well, Don is wearing his Speedo in the privacy of his own home...I wish all men would do that.

 

[makingtrax]

I wonder if anyone else is walking with a nude behind?

U mean a nude companion walking behind u or a nude BUTT? HA HA

 

[pierrenaples]

Almost TMI - but funny. I live on the other (East) coast of Florida.

Here, we have one wardrobe all year - shorts and t-shirts with sandals. I sport a Camino tan year-round.

I'm in Naples too, I do the Greenway from Golden Gate Pkwy to Baker's Park mostly once or twice a day temp and weather dependent. I sorta meant because I'm in the shoes I'll be wearing that they don't get much sun now.

 

[naplesdon]

I know Don well enough to chuckle (A LOT) at the thought of him in a Speedo at his pool. Then again, he likely looks better than me.

Like a Russian Oligarch in Speedos, if you get my drift.

 

[bergmannfamily]

So our camino tans were unlike any other tan I have ever had. The best tan was on the back of the calves, and then the next best was the left side of the body. By the time we reached Sarria you could tell who had walked the whole Frances because we all had the same tans from always walking westward and mostly in the morning. Anyone with an even whole body tan had not come our way.

 

[Rex]

Almost TMI - but funny. I live on the other (East) coast of Florida.

Here, we have one wardrobe all year - shorts and t-shirts with sandals. I sport a Camino tan year-round.

I live in Kona and have the same wardrobe. Oofus sandals, shorts and t-shirts with Hawaiian print shirts for "dress up" occasions.

 

[Rex]

Here in Kona I have to walk to the north one day and to the south the next day to keep the tan sort of equal, but with SPF 70 Reef Safe Dolphin Safe Camino Safe (did I miss anything) sunscreen, my tan is still lagging a bit... only the "watch strap" pale band shows that I'm getting any sun, but the boring weather (80 high / 69 low) every day makes moving achy bones a lot easier each day.
VF coming up in late May through late July. Au revoir and bon chemin.
PS -- Speedos in Kona are reserved for the old (and weight challenged ) males who don't own a mirror. :>)

 

[Tassie Kaz]

Hmmm ..so @pierrenaples & @biarritzdon...Naples is in the US?
And here was I envisioning Tyrrhenian 🏖 Sea locales for these..er...distinctive tan lines!

 

[Jeff Crawley]

Sitting by my pool in Naples, I have developed two sun free areas:
1.) top of head (I wear a ball cap)
2.) my groin (I wear a Speedo)

Never, ever, get them mixed up!

 

[Jeff Crawley]

Yep, that's it. When on the Camino I eventually develop a Pilgrim's tan; it's a version of what is called a Farmer's tan. The left side of my face developed two smallish brown spots after a few Caminos even though I wear a hat. I think it is because walking SW in spring my face is exposed more to the sun's rays on the side, in addition to being a "bit" older.

I walked for a few days with a young French woman who favoured a Teeshirt dress and complained that the left side and rear of her calves were more tanned than the other side and wonder whether walking back on the revuelta would even things out.

 

[TrvlDad1]

We have been training since October, I think my feet and ankles are the only sun free areas left.
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Must be my Roman nose exceeds the bill of my cap. I look like Rudolph.

 

[Icacos]

May, 2013, somewhere on the Frances ... this young man had been two months on the camino. He had walked from his home in Frankfurt. Reminds me that I want to get some fingerless gloves.

 

[TrvlDad1]

Never, ever, get them mixed up!

Not ever in the same photo!