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  1. kuhawkhead

    Night sweats?

    Totally makes sense as the mattress cannot breathe. Your body Heat is just transferring and staying.
  2. kuhawkhead

    Night sweats?

    I plan on being mostly vegetarian on the Portuguese coastal route as many seem to get sick after eating meat.
  3. kuhawkhead

    What to expect weather and crowd wise on Portuguese coastal route in early January?

    Will be doing hopefully my first of many Camino journeys leaving out of Porto December 29. From what I can tell, highs in 50’s to 60’s F and possibly some but not a lot of moisture with no snow along the coast. Anyone done this route around this time, considering weather is always different...
  4. kuhawkhead

    Death of American pilgrim in Castromaior today

    Many prayers lifted your way. A patient of mine was recently hit and killed in central Kansas USA training for a Camino.
  5. kuhawkhead

    Sandals vs. flip flops.

    I love my bedrock sandals.
  6. kuhawkhead

    Over 32K pilgrims from the U.S., the second highest after Spain, received compostelas in 2023, per Foundacion Jacobea

    Agreed! We will walk our first of hopefully many Caminos This coming December. The book Walking with Sam by Andrew McCarthy was our main inspiration, then going down the very deep, long rabbit hole of videos of every route on YouTube made us commit. The Way was good, but did little to influence us.
  7. kuhawkhead

    Changes to the Camino

    This is a great post and is very well written. I’ve yet to do a Camino, but I see it as a very individualistic journey that as a fellow pilgrim, I just would not have the right to do anything to interrupt it for another pilgrim. I’ve friends in Scotland that talked about the increase in...
  8. kuhawkhead

    Hiking sandals or not?

    Now, I’m a Camino virgin (hoping to do the Portugal Coastal or Frances in the next two years), From everything I’ve watched from YouTube, the Altra Olympus with gators for uneven and rocky terrain and I plan on using my bedrock sandals (zero drop, light, much less bulky sandals) to alternate...
  9. kuhawkhead

    August heatwave on camino

    *when every year wasn’t hotter than the one before. Climate change is here.

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