[Gocamino] Starting, Walking, Stamps Etc

[Howard Mendes]

My experience with the Pilgrim Office in SdeC is that they are slavishly bureacratic and inflexible about NOT gving you the Compostela unless they are satisfied that you walked the last 100 km. to Santiago.  If you demonstrate that you have walked more than the proscribed 100 km. along other routes or previous segments of th same route, they will scoff at you and be dismissive.  


I have my original Compostela stored away somewhere; but, in truth, it is just a piece of paper. It is like a high school diploma.  No one ever asks to see it, but you know you earned it. The real evidence of the Camino will be in your heart and your mind.


Howard Mendes, NYC



-----Original Message-----
From: Jane Goldstein <janehgoldstein at gmail.com>
To: Jeff P. Crim <jpcrim1974 at gmail.com>
Cc: gocamino <gocamino at oakapple.net>
Sent: Wed, Apr 24, 2013 12:16 pm
Subject: Re: [Gocamino] Starting, Walking, Stamps Etc


Stamps merely show you were there. They can be close or far apart. As long as 
you walked , then the stamp is ok. But if you drove to each stamp location, that 
would not be "right". Stamps do not need to be near each other. So you can skip 
sections. I am on the Camino right now. 

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On Apr 24, 2013, at 4:58 PM, "Jeff P. Crim" <jpcrim1974 at gmail.com> wrote:

> My wife and I are newlyweds (3 months), and while we were dating we 
> began walking. hiking, and biking. Next month we are going to do a short 
> section hike of the Appalachian Trail, and since we realized that the 
> route we drive to go visit her family in PA roughly parallels the AT, we 
> are also planning to do some day hikes en route to and from this summer.
> 
> We are also planning to take a vacation next year. She's been to Europe 
> many times, and I never have. Tentatively we are talking about making 
> the Camino part of that.  We cannot plan our trip around the entire 
> Camino Frances. But instead of walking only the last 100km from Sarria 
> to Santiago, I was wondering about doing a hybrid thing like we are 
> doing on the AT. If we were to do some short day hikes on the earlier 
> sections and then take the bus or train to Sarria and walk to Santiago: 
> That would certainly get us the Compostella as we would have walked 
> 100km. My question is: would it be inappropriate to collect stamps in 
> our credentials for those earlier sections since they will be separated 
> from the last 100km by vehicle travel?
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