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class=862165320-17042003><FONT color=#0000ff>I had the same concerns while
walking on the Camino. I had left my husband, children, parents, etc.
behind. Though many of the refugios do have phones, I think you would find
it virtually impossible to predict where you are going to be over the course of
a 30 day walk. Some people carried cell phones (one German couple we met
had left instructions that they would only turn the phone one for one set hour a
day and that any call would have to wait for that hour). What I did was to
buy phone cards in the tabacalera shops -- just as here, there are lots and lots
of different brands, different rates, but the people in the shops know what
works best for the US. Than I just called home every other day, it was
cheap and efficient. Buen camino, <SPAN
class=224315820-17042003> Laurie </SPAN><SPAN
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