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In my experience in Spain, when I've been asked the where are you from question, it is usually in the form of ¿de donde eres? to which I say, simply, Seattle, or cerca de Seattle. This avoids stumbling over my tongue with a longer, more general...
My recollection of this early stretch of the Frances was its seeming interminableness. In the Cascades, especially in wet conditions, we who hike a fair amount are used to focusing—hard—when there is the risk of a fall or worse. In my view (and...
Great to be there - then. Wish really wish I was.
As it is, I am sitting in a hospital, in Washington DC, next to my wife. I have been her 24 x 7 caregiver since last April - 2023.
She has been here for one week. I took a hotel near by so I...
Some time back a thread became quite heated when someone asked which she should bring for personal protection while on the Camino - Mace, a knife or a gun? I think that question said a great deal more about her situation at home than the...
Sorry, it’s late and I haven’t read all the previous replies so this has probably been said already - but I will sleep better if I post this now .
I am a sociologist and I love it when people think about the questions you raise and when people...
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