[Gocamino] On the road again

[Donald Schell]

My experience with a walking stick (and I've walked with the same  
wonderful stick from Bardsey Island off the coast of Wales all three  
times on the Camino)  is that when they haven't required me to check  
it (and I've offered, 'no, it's like a cane, that won't be  
necessary') ) that somewhere along the way a security person won't  
let it through.  Actually once it was a security person, and once it  
was the steward on the flightway right at the plane's door.

The difficulty of sticks in with the luggage is that they can get  
lost (has happened to mine).   The duffel seems like a good idea -  
anything to make something that doesn't just slip into an out of  
sight place in the plane's luggage compartment.

love,
donald

On Nov 19, 2007, at 12:30 PM, Pat Rush wrote:

> Claire--I pray you and your husband have a safe walk.  Regarding  
> hiking
> poles, none of the American or European airlines on which I've  
> flown (since
> 9/11) have allowed hiking poles in the cabin.  I wrap them up and  
> check them
> as baggage, or put them, and my backpack in a duffel and check it  
> through.
>
> Patricia, upstate New York
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "claire bangasser" <claire.bangasser at wanadoo.fr>
> To: <Gocamino at oakapple.net>
> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 5:35 PM
> Subject: [Gocamino] On the road again
>
>
>
> I would like to thank all those of you who have helped me with
> suggestions, advice and recommendations regarding a Camino from
> Somport in November.
>
> My husband and I are flying easyjet to Barcelona tomorrow morning and
> hope to catch two buses (to Huesca and then to Jaca) tomorrow
> afternoon. Si Dios quiere, we'll be taking a bus Tuesday morning to
> Somport and start walking from there. On Thursday, Thanksgiving, we
> may be visiting San Juan de la Peña. After that, it will be a
> question of walking until December 6th. On the 7th, we have a flight
> back to Geneva.
>
> I went to www.inm.es, the weather forecast site, and saw it should be
> raining -- and possibly snowing -- at least the first week. After
> that we'll see.
>
> I remember some time ago a long and convoluted thread here on whether
> or not to take walking poles on airplanes. And I simply cannot recall
> what was the basic advice. I will know tomorrow as I will go the
> airport with mine.
>
> I have caught myself already praying St James for taking care of us,
> so all should be well.
>
> Most of all, thanks to you who took the time to send me addresses,
> telephones, or told me how to find the key to the refugio.
>
> My American Pilgrim credential is in my belly pack, with the credit
> card and the passport :-)
>
> A bientôt, nos vemos,
>
> claire
>
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