Oh, how I love packing lists!

[claudia castellani]

Great letter!! For a while, I felt back on the Camino!!!
I used both earplugs and ibuprofen in order to try to sleep.
The earplugs because the hostels at night are quite noisy. Moreover there
are flocks of pilgrims (especially German ones) who wake up at 4 o'clock and
noisily pack their backpacks (oh, those horrible noisy plastic bags in which
they wrapped everythiing......) while you try to sleep......
The ibuprofen was essential to try and reduce my leg-pain, which at night
was unsustainable (even if I stretched!). I think the reason for such a pain
at night is that laying in a bed in silence (more or less!!!) makes your
senses more attentive to whatever happens in your body.

Claudia


>From: Frank Metcalf and Mary Doherty <redtailaTELUS.NET>
>Reply-To: Road to Santiago Pilgrimage <GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU>
>To: GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU
>Subject: Re: Oh, how I love packing lists!
>Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 23:29:30 -0800
>
>Deanna,
>
>Hard to trust in strange pillows, or none at all, isn't it? My wife
>absconded with an airlines pillow, and I packed along a smallish pillowcase
>with a tiny zipper, into which I stuffed (or in which I simply kept) most
>of my clothing. We both slept very well. I'm addicted to Ohropax earplugs,
>and packed 12, enough generously for 6 weeks. Sleep is so crucial for
>sustaining hard work that I'm sure it repays the luxury of some trivial
>extra weight.
>
>My other "guilty secret"---all right, there's also the ibuprophen and the
>caffein pills (blush, sob)---is a dedicated t-shirt to wrap around my head
>as a nighttime blindfold. I got into the habit during a decade of brilliant
>Arctic summer "nights" under canvas. I went to an American Quaternary
>Association meeting in 1976, and ever afterward have used the funky cotton
>conference t-shirt to blind myself---even, ridiculously, during the Arctic
>winter nights. But for the camino, at least I managed to switch to a
>polypro running shirt, which also was actually worn as a last resort.
>
>Frank

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