On the Portuguese, someone stole my 1lb Costco down coverlet and stuff sack. Any ideas for what and where to replace it? I'm a few day south of Porto.
How disappointing! Is it cold yet??
Your post triggered a tale....bear with me. I was walking along the meseta somewhere, and suddenly I saw, a quarter mile ahead, a sleeping back fall right off the back of a young woman's pack.
How could she have missed the sudden weight reduction? I had a solution! I blew my emergency whistle as hard and loud as I could. The people ahead looked around as if to say, "Was that a bird?" Then, they shrugged it off and continued on.
I caught up to the bag and picked it up. Very lightweight, and seemed brand new. I again BLEWWWWWW that whistle!!!! my ears... yikes! It was painful! No turn-around, nothing. It was then that I realized that my fluorescent super-loud REI whistle was NOTHING out on the Spanish plains!.
I carried it, and carried it, and carried it until the next town. There the woman sat, and as I walked up, her eyes got big. "Is that mine?," she asked. Yes....and I've been carrying it for quite a long ways.
She asked if she owed me a coffee, which I indeed gladly accepted!