Today is Sunday and I finished my Camino from León on Friday. The thing is I am feeling off balanced. I feel like I am not done. Last night I started feeling anxious with the thought of going back home. We fly out back home first thing tomorrow...
The easy and obvious solution is to start closer to Santiago.
And I find that since my only "job" on the Camino is to walk from point A to point B that I can walk farther on the Camino than I can at home where I have a dozen other tasks that I...
My hydration pack holds 2 liters, but I rarely fill it - only if there are long distances between services. Most days I carry about a liter. On the routes that I have walked I have always found places to refill or buy something to drink during...
I do the same, but have rarely run out. There are some longer stretches between towns on the CF where one needs to be more careful. Some people rely on refilling smaller water bottles in every village, and that might work. The risk is that fonts...
Contact your bank and credit cards and let them know you will be traveling overseas. (Some credit cards no longer require this, but some still do.)
Figure out your mail hold. USPS won't hold for longer than 30 days so you may need to get a...
Also, you may see things you are comfortable with and some things you may not be comfortable with. Mainly, just look away or don't look. On my first Camino a group of male bicyclists from Italy strode around visiting pleasantly in the giant bunk...
Besides the first week of hiking, one of the hardest challenges I found with these trails was how much I had to prebook accommodation. It’s very touristy (Norte) so you aren’t just competing with pilgrims but surfers too. I felt, but maybe I was...
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