[Gocamino] Should albergues only accept those walking to Santiago?

[Kathy Gower]

What a can of worms!  I'm a truebeliever in what would be called "open space technology" in the business world...a self-organizing system.  All of us who walked, rode or whatever, always slept each night, no matter where, and lived to tell the tale.
What would the Ultimate Pilgrim do?  (The one who wearspilgrim garb on the way to his own shrine?)

> From: sillydoll at gmail.com
> Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 17:19:38 +0200
> To: saintjames at yahoogroups.com; gocamino at oakapple.net
> Subject: [Gocamino] Should albergues only accept those walking to Santiago?
> 
> There has been a lot of discussion and concern about the enormous pressure
> on albergues during the Holy Year.
> The pilgrims' office estimates that only 1-in-5 pilgrims on the camino will
> earn a Compostela.
> Thousands walk short sections of the main routes, or variants (like the
> Aragones, Catalan, San Salvador etc), with no intention of walking to
> Santiago.  Perhaps one way to lessen the burden would be for albergues to
> only accept pilgrims who are walking to Santiago?
> I know that it would be hard to police, but the word would soon move along
> the grape vine and those not walking to Santiago could find alternative
> accommodation leaving beds free for the die-hard, Santiago Holy Year
> pilgrims.
> 
> -- 
> Sil
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