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Liv Marit said:Hi, Michael !
On my first week on the Camino in May, me and my fellow travellers always left the backpack besides the bed in the refugios when we got out for food or sightseeing. I never missed anything, and I will do the same the rest of the way to Santiago in September.
Buen Camino !
Liv
Liv Marit said:Hi again !
Of course, you NEVER leave your little bag with passport,Liv
Janeh said:Vinotinto, could you please explain what a TSA lock is and also how heavy or what type was your cable lock?thanks.
Oh, Oh... please NEVER put your backpack ON the bed! Think of all the places that you have set it down during your day's walk! It is also one of the best ways to spread bed bugs (they LOVE to hike a ride in your pack)! The best place to store your pack, after you have sorted out your immediate needs for the afternoon, is under the bed. It's not in the way of anyone - and - it makes it more unaccessable. AnneValdis Pauzers said:claimed your bed by putting your baggage and sleeping bag at/on the bed) after or even during your shower.
BlackDog said:If you are concerned about security an added extra would be a movement alarm such as used for protection of laptops.
I really am serious :roll: , why would the alarm wake anyone up if it is not moved. Do you want to sleep through a pilgrim being robbed? It's not something on a timer, it alarms when an unauthorised person tries to get into it. If you don't move it it's quiet, unlike some sleepers. If you accidentally move it it beeps, if you continue to move it it alarms. Its deactivation by its owner is silent. Where is the problem :?:Anniesantiago said:BlackDog said:If you are concerned about security an added extra would be a movement alarm such as used for protection of laptops.
I really hope you are not serious.
Please do NOT put an alarm on your pack and walk away.
You may come back to find it in the nearest pond, especially if people are trying to sleep. :lol:
With a rucksack not on the bed I can't see why an alarm should be going off :?grayland said:remember that the beds a usually double bunks and the climbing into and out of the other bunk by someone will very easily set of the alarm. Many reasons why the bed can be jarred.
Think of all of the car alarms we hear going off for hours with no one arround.
Shared quarters often take a little more consideration than usual.
I think you are underestimating how difficult it will be to ensure that your rucksack is so well isolated from disturbance as others innocently go about their business moving around the dormitory that the alarm doesn't get falsely triggered.BlackDog said:With a rucksack not on the bed I can't see why an alarm should be going off :?
My view is that you are overestimating the alarm triggering - we'll have to agree to differ. It was a suggestion to someone who was seriously concerned about theft.dougfitz said:I think you are underestimating how difficult it will be to ensure that your rucksack is so well isolated from disturbance as others innocently go about their business moving around the dormitory that the alarm doesn't get falsely triggered.BlackDog said:With a rucksack not on the bed I can't see why an alarm should be going off :?
I thought the thread re-started with the dirty sock suggestion. I have seen similar suggestions about customs checks, and my experience is that it is thoroughly bad advice in that context.BlackDog said:dougfitz said:BlackDog said:My view is that you are overestimating the alarm triggering - we'll have to agree to differ. It was a suggestion to someone who was seriously concerned about theft.
Oh, Oh... please NEVER put your backpack ON the bed! Think of all the places that you have set it down during your day's walk! It is also one of the best ways to spread bed bugs (they LOVE to hike a ride in your pack)! The best place to store your pack, after you have sorted out your immediate needs for the afternoon, is under the bed. It's not in the way of anyone - and - it makes it more unaccessable. Anne
While it is hard to get into the mind of a bed bug, they mostly live in walls and lay their eggs on mattresses and in crevices. If a backpack is hanging from the corner of a bunk, particularly a metal bunk, then they don't need to pass the pack on the way to flesh, their real objective. They will visit your pack only to lay eggs, since there is no nourishment for them in your pack (unlike that Snickers bar that will draw bears). The permethrin on your pack will make it a very unattractive target if you have sprayed inside and out. The bed bugs lay eggs after feeding on blood, and it is less likely that they will negotiate the path down a cord or carabiner from the top corner of a bunk post, than just head for the mattress or the wall.it really doesn't matter whether you hang the backpack on the top corner
Wise advice, DougF, and that's why I copied this for the later readers.dougfitz said:[...] .... I never discuss the details of how I have arranged my valuables, and I am particularly wary when someone asks directly about this in conversation. I am prepared for it to be an innocent question, but that doesn't mean it deserves an answer that reveals my own arrangements to anyone who might be listening.
vinotinto said:... and when I hit the rack I secured the daypack to the bedpost next to my head with a PacSafe cable lock.
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