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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Group: I just want to say how appreciative I
am of all the information-packed e-mails that have been coming recently about
shoes, self-care, packs and light packing, books, etc. I have been just
scrambling to try to have time to read and research it all as I want to try to
do "a route," not sure which considering the crowd potential, in late May or
June. I am going to take an Intensive Spanish class in March thru May, but
when I read the post about Castillian Spanish being a much different dialect
from Latin Spanish, I had to rethink this class. I am going to ask the
instructors if they know about this dialect, but does anyone more familiar with
the language have suggestions? Thank you all for the plethora of good
resources and suggestions. I am already "on" the Camino. Namaste', Ali in
Spokane, WA. USA</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>