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Any tips on making an elegant ascent?I'm sure that all of you bunk experts who have posted on this thread know this already, but just in case anyone reading hasn't been on a bunk since the days of summer camp, you should know that there is an easy way and a hard way to get down from a top bunk.
The easy way is to slide down with your face facing inward (that is, the bed below), you just slide down easily and your feet will touch the floor before your arms have to let go of the top bunk. For some reason, I always see numbers of pilgrims on the top going down facing outwards, and this is much harder and more dangerous whether there is a ladder or not. Buen camino, Laurie
Hi LaurieI'm sure that all of you bunk experts who have posted on this thread know this already, but just in case anyone reading hasn't been on a bunk since the days of summer camp, you should know that there is an easy way and a hard way to get down from a top bunk.
The easy way is to slide down with your face facing inward (that is, the bed below), you just slide down easily and your feet will touch the floor before your arms have to let go of the top bunk. For some reason, I always see numbers of pilgrims on the top going down facing outwards, and this is much harder and more dangerous whether there is a ladder or not. Buen camino, Laurie
Hi Laurie
I think by now given the number of pilgrim trails you have walked, you could be described as a professional bunk bed slider.
I wonder if Sil has this in her latest camino book on tips and tricks on doing the camino?
I could see a whole chapter devoted to bunk beds - getting into and out of bunks beds, double vs triple or go it alone, making out in a bunk bed so your neighbours don't know, etc.
Where is Tim Moore when you need him
Any tips on making an elegant ascent?
Yea, I have the same issue and concern....Sheesh....Personally I prefer the lower bunk.
The mid night visit to the loo means my first step is not "a doozy of a fall" to the floor below but instead a simply tumble forward, followed by a shuffle or two, ideally not hitting the bunk bed beside me.
In other words I not in the mood at all to practice aerobics at 3:00 am in the morning, so the lower bunk means I need only simply resort to my basic human male functions required to navigate from the bed to the loo.
Hmmmm. This is an added benefit of the Camino I did not know about...I like the bunks (top or bottom) where they are pushed together. It is always nice to be surprised with a bed partner^^.
It enhances the benefit of sleeping next to someone who is an active sleeper, snorer or even someone to help you get down from the top bunk.
Ultreya,
Joe
Alert The Complete Oxford English Dictionary!I like the bunks (top or bottom) where they are pushed together. It is always nice to be surprised with a bed partner^^.
Ha ha......Alert The Complete Oxford English Dictionary!
We have a new definition for 'Bedbug'
no such thing!Any tips on making an elegant ascent?
Thanks for your post - this is exactly why I love this forum - tidbits of info that are so useful.I'm sure that all of you bunk experts who have posted on this thread know this already, but just in case anyone reading hasn't been on a bunk since the days of summer camp, you should know that there is an easy way and a hard way to get down from a top bunk.
The easy way is to slide down with your face facing inward (that is, the bed below), you just slide down easily and your feet will touch the floor before your arms have to let go of the top bunk. For some reason, I always see numbers of pilgrims on the top going down facing outwards, and this is much harder and more dangerous whether there is a ladder or not. Buen camino, Laurie
My big sister got the top bunk when we were kids, so now I always go for the top bunk when I get the chance.
prolly the same thing...lolI guess some people have developed "top bunk" fetishes due to deep seated sibling issues
I wonder what it means for those like myself that like the bottom bunk bed?
The middle aged American woman looked hopelessly at her upper bunk.
Then enviously down at me relaxing on the bottom bunk.
“There's just no way I'll ever be able to get up there!” she exclaimed.
“The Casa Rural full was it?” I asked. She nodded.
“Oh well, pilgrims just have to make do”, I said.
“You wouldn't consider swapping?” she asked.
“You are apparently unaware madam,” I said, “that the age of chivalry is dead and I don't think it's coming back any time soon”.
I rolled off the bed and found a chair which I positioned at the bunk's edge.
“Now stop complaining and get your butt up there”.
She climbed up onto the chair. I laced my fingers together to form a stirrup.
Up she clambered. A broad smile broke across her face.
Such a smile. I had to take a photo.
“This is really rather fun, isn't it!”, she exclaimed, looking expansively about the dorm.
Sleeping on the top bunk was indeed highly prized when I was a child.
I would rock the bunks precariously from side to side and hurl various objects at my brother down below.
What fun I had! What happened to make me change my mind?
It was you lot. For no good reason telling me the bottom bunk was better.
I've been brainwashed!
Next Camino it's top bunk all the way for me!
I want to recover some of that childhood joy.
It's in short supply.
Regds
Gerard
ps. Anyone know where I can get a spud gun and a good water pistol?
I wanna be armed and dangerous.
Okay, Now I am a top bunk guy again.....Sheesh....Top bunk if I can manage it - had the experience of 'debris' dust falling on my face while the person in the top bunk lumbered around trying to get comfortable, so it's worth the effort and creaky bones to get up there
I considered addressing that fact but decided the post would perhaps be more thought provoking if I did not.I hope Gerard, that you would give up the bottom bunk if someone really wasn't able for it, and you weren't seriously crocked yourself. Chivalry may well be dead, but kindness should never go out of fashion
We older guys have (through no fault of our own) have developed the need to "water the garden" frequently during most nights. It is probably in everyone's best interests to allow us to claim a lower berth, if you get my drift.The middle aged American woman looked hopelessly at her upper bunk.
Then enviously down at me relaxing on the bottom bunk.
“There's just no way I'll ever be able to get up there!” she exclaimed.
“The Casa Rural full was it?” I asked. She nodded.
“Oh well, pilgrims just have to make do”, I said.
“You wouldn't consider swapping?” she asked.
“You are apparently unaware madam,” I said, “that the age of chivalry is dead and I don't think it's coming back any time soon”.
I rolled off the bed and found a chair which I positioned at the bunk's edge.
“Now stop complaining and get your butt up there”.
She climbed up onto the chair. I laced my fingers to form a stirrup.
Up she clambered. A broad smile broke across her face.
Such a smile. I had to take a photo.
“This is really rather fun, isn't it!”, she exclaimed, looking expansively about the dorm.
Sleeping on the top bunk was indeed highly prized when I was a child.
I would rock the bunks precariously from side to side and hurl various objects at my brother below.
What fun I had! What happened to make me change my mind?
It was you lot. For no good reason telling me the bottom bunk was better.
I've been brainwashed!
Next Camino it's top bunk all the way for me!
I want to recover some of that childhood joy.
Regds
Gerard
ps. Anyone know where I can get a spud gun and a good water pistol?
I wanna be armed and dangerous.
Why climb up when you can walk up?
I think the albergues should get some of these instead http://www.efurniturehouse.com/images/products/detail/JTFSTH500TwinFullStairwayBunkBed.jpg
Buen Camino!
are you bloody kidding? I would get vertigo....And in Viana....triple bunks ..what a challenge
Hey Pats, that must be why they sell carabiners in pilgrim supply shops.are you bloody kidding? I would get vertigo....
lmao...ima need more security than that to get me to the top of three bunks...lol. That would make me feel like frodo and samwise when they were camped on the ledge of the cliff climbing the idiotic stairs...Hey Pats, that must be why they sell carabiners in pilgrim supply shops.
Chair... Very good idea if they're about but I don't recall seeing many. I'm cast back to the 90 bed dorm in Najera (maybe). Not one chair to be had
Its not even just rude and uncalled for. Its illogical and kinda dumb...lolWhy would someone hang a dirty pair of socks on a bunk bed when you can wash them clean and hang on a clothes line to dry?
Not only would it be rude but completely uncalled for.
Buen Camino!
Its not even just rude and uncalled for. Its illogical and kinda dumb...lol
Why would someone hang a dirty pair of socks on a bunk bed when you can wash them clean and hang on a clothes line to dry?
Not only would it be rude but completely uncalled for.
Buen Camino!
Agreed!!!!! Buen Camino for all.....If I was lucky enough to get the bottom bunk I would be gracious enough to let the top bunk person have their share of the bunk hanging/drying space!! It would be unacceptably rude to expect otherwise.
Anyone who says this is tremendously lucky and must have never walked in the rain, arrived in the albergue with no place to hang clothes because it's still raining outside and was afraid that clothes washed now won't ever dry. So you hang your damp (yes, dirty) clothes on the bunks inside the albergue and hope for the best. Frequently the clothes are still a bit wet in the morning, so you pin them on the outside of your backpack, but of course if it's raining the next day you just have to repeat the cycle again when you arrive at your next albergue.
May all your caminos be dry and all your clothes sweet smelling.
MendiWalker perhaps you could explain WHERE the top bunk occupier is supposed to hang their clothes line?
MendiWalker perhaps you could explain WHERE the top bunk occupier is supposed to hang their clothes line?
That's a clothes line!!!?
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