[Gocamino] Starting, Walking, Stamps Etc

Sat Apr 27 04:27:47 PDT 2013

On the contrary - on my 7 arrivals in Santiago I have always had a warm welcome in the Pilgrims Office. In 2010 the Amigos volunteers were established to meet, greet, hug and welcome every pilgrim as the arrive. They need volunteers Howard. Maybe you could offer your services and be a part of the warm welcome. 
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From: Howard <HMe347 at aol.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 07:11:22 
To: Sil<sillydoll at gmail.com>
Cc: janehgoldstein at gmail.com<janehgoldstein at gmail.com>; jpcrim1974 at gmail.com<jpcrim1974 at gmail.com>; gocamino at oakapple.net<gocamino at oakapple.net>
Subject: Re: [Gocamino] Starting, Walking, Stamps Etc

Sil - they may not be Inquisitors, but they act like they were trained by the folks at  the Motor Vehicles Dept. in NYC. You do not get a warm, fuzzy welcome from them. Take off your rosé colored glasses, Sil, and be honest with folks seeking assistance here.  

Be prepared, Jeff, for a humiliating, demeaning experience. As I indicated previously, the compostela is just a piece of paper that will probably lose its importance to you over time. Not worth getting a negative experience over being denied to you for "non compliance" with the rules. Sil does you a disservice in misleading you.
Howard Mendes NYC

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On Apr 27, 2013, at 1:06 AM, Sil <sillydoll at gmail.com> wrote:

> "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."
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> Ha! Ha!  Howard you are so funny!  You make the good people in the Pilgrim's Office sound like vengeful inquisitors!  Jeff, the exact opposite is true.  While its true that they don't issue the certificate to pilgrims who take buses or taxis on the last 100km, the people in the pilgrim's office are not there to punish anyone and every pilgrim is assessed as an individual according to the effort they put in to walking the last 100km.  I know pilgrims who started in St Jean but who were unable to walk every km of the last 100km (for various reasons) who were given the Compostela.  
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> On 24 April 2013 19:30, Howard Mendes <hme347 at aol.com> wrote:
>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> Howard Mendes, NYC
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>> -----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
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>> 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:
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>> > 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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