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alipilgrim said:Jeez, I remember balancing all my clothes on the merest few inches of space while showering, worrying the whole time I'd be stepping into clothes as damp as me!
tohams said:You set a 4 digit code and arm it attached to your bag.
Anniesantiago said:Keep your camera, passport, and cash in your fannypack and enjoy the Camino!
Anniesantiago said:Always take your money, camera, and any other valuables WITH YOU INTO THE SHOWER.
annakappa said:having a well earned glass of vino tinto
Thanks to all the veteran posters who weighed in on this. I leave for my first camino in six weeks, and just walked with my pack after packing it for the third time. My good friend, a veteran ultralight backpacker, pointed out how heavy my small computer is. Now it's clear to me that I should leave it home not just because of the weight but also because of the worry about theft AND about using it enough to make it worth having carried the weight. I now see that rather than enhancing my camino, it could be a distraction. So what if I can view my photos only on my camera?
jeploss's post is from 2010. The technology of taking decent photos with a phone has progressed a lot since then.Or merely on your phone?
I can PROMISE you that the first time your little bell alarm goes off in the middle of the night, you will make many enemies!
For crying out loud people... take 5 weeks of your life and do your best to live WITHOUT all the electronic gadgets... Otherwise, just look at the pretty pictures on your laptops and say you have been there.
Put your valuables in the foot box of your sleeping bag at night and SLEEP.
And allow other weary pilgrims to do the same, not to be jolted awake by your alarm every time someone mistakenly kicks it in the darkness.
Just GO...
SIMPLIFY!
Leave the iPhone, the computer, the jewelry, at HOME.
Try it... you'll find freedom you never knew existed.
:::Annie sits down and puts her heads in her hands, contemplating how the love "things" can ruin a perfectly wonderful pilgrimage::::::
I'm feeling a little frustrated today... sorry...
jeploss's post is from 2010. The technology of taking decent photos with a phone has progressed a lot since then.
Not only has technology evolved, so has people's opinionjeploss's post is from 2010. The technology of taking decent photos with a phone has progressed a lot since then.
Not only has technology evolved, so has people's opinion.
A quick look into less old threads tells us that the very person who was strongly against taking any "gadget" on pilgrimage, as can be read in this thread that has been slumbering peacefully and untouched since 10 April 2010 until it was awoken yesterday, said in 2017 that she resisted carrying an iPhone for years, but lately has been taking it, and in 2018 she let us know that her iPhone lives in her pocket, that she LOVES Vodafone and that she even carries an iPad in her backpack under certain conditions.
But that should not stop us from commenting on opinions expressed in messages from 2009 and 2010.
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