<html><head></head><BODY bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><p><font size=2 color="#000000" face="Charter BT"><br>Some additional comments:<br><br>Round trip Airline tickets from USA:<br>This was my first agony. Walking from SJPP to Santiago, How many total days should I schedule for myself in Spain? My earliest Pilgrim contact had told me that he took 30 days from SJPP to Santiago, walking only 6 days per week and resting on the 7th. (However he did NOT tell me that he took a bus between Burgos and Leon...). Obviously the Math did not make any sense.<br>After doing my own calculations, etc., For my own purposes, I decided to give myself a total time of 42 days in Spain. This would allow time to travel northward to San Sebastian and then for a two day visit with a friend who lives near SJPP, and it would permit me a bit of time for jet lag recovery before beginning.<br>I completed the SJPP to Santiago walk in 34 days (April 23, 1999 to May 26, 1999), then had three days in Santiago. For the remaining time, back to Madrid, and a visit to Toledo before my return home to USA.<br><br>My backpack and my stuff were way too heavy. When I reached Estella, I mailed almost 3.0 kilos back to USA, including my pesonal journal (measuring 12" x 7.5" x 1") and my "Guia Practica" by Bravo Lozano. My personal journal became a little spiral bound notebook (3.5" x 5") which I purchased along the camino, and which fit handily in my around-the-neck passport-pouch. Still, I had more weight than I needed.<br><br>I never did acclimate to doing my own laundry by hand. I resisted to the point of almost becoming a bio-hazard on the camino <a joke!>.<br><br>My pilgrimage was a solo enterprise, but most days I spent in the pleasant company of others. At each albergue I tried to find the albergue's Daily Journal (Libro de los Perigrinos?) and read the wonderful entries written by those who had gone before me; and oftentimes I would scribble my own comments for others following me to read. Some of the intensely personal artwork and drawings in these libros could move you to tears.<br><br>Buen camino, <br><br>Paul Newfield (pcn01awebdsi.com)<br><http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~brasscannon><br><br></p>
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