<DIV>I took ibuprophen at lunch every day, 600mg. (after I learned that I would need it). Then the last of the walk was not so hard. And I never had any trouble sleeeping unless I was next to a battleship snorer.</DIV>
<DIV>deanna<BR><BR><B><I>claudia castellani <claudietta67aHOTMAIL.COM></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Great letter!! For a while, I felt back on the Camino!!!<BR>I used both earplugs and ibuprofen in order to try to sleep.<BR>The earplugs because the hostels at night are quite noisy. Moreover there<BR>are flocks of pilgrims (especially German ones) who wake up at 4 o'clock and<BR>noisily pack their backpacks (oh, those horrible noisy plastic bags in which<BR>they wrapped everythiing......) while you try to sleep......<BR>The ibuprofen was essential to try and reduce my leg-pain, which at night<BR>was unsustainable (even if I stretched!). I think the reason for such a pain<BR>at night is that laying in a bed in silence (more or less!!!) makes your<BR>senses more attentive to whatever happens in your body.<BR><BR>Claudia<BR><BR><BR>>From: Frank Metcalf and Mary Doherty <REDTAILaTELUS.NET><BR>>Reply-To: Road to Santiago Pilgrimage <GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU><BR>>To:
GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU<BR>>Subject: Re: Oh, how I love packing lists!<BR>>Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 23:29:30 -0800<BR>><BR>>Deanna,<BR>><BR>>Hard to trust in strange pillows, or none at all, isn't it? My wife<BR>>absconded with an airlines pillow, and I packed along a smallish pillowcase<BR>>with a tiny zipper, into which I stuffed (or in which I simply kept) most<BR>>of my clothing. We both slept very well. I'm addicted to Ohropax earplugs,<BR>>and packed 12, enough generously for 6 weeks. Sleep is so crucial for<BR>>sustaining hard work that I'm sure it repays the luxury of some trivial<BR>>extra weight.<BR>><BR>>My other "guilty secret"---all right, there's also the ibuprophen and the<BR>>caffein pills (blush, sob)---is a dedicated t-shirt to wrap around my head<BR>>as a nighttime blindfold. I got into the habit during a decade of brilliant<BR>>Arctic summer "nights" under canvas. I went to an American Quaternary<BR>>Asso!
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meeting in 1976, and ever afterward have used the funky cotton<BR>>conference t-shirt to blind myself---even, ridiculously, during the Arctic<BR>>winter nights. But for the camino, at least I managed to switch to a<BR>>polypro running shirt, which also was actually worn as a last resort.<BR>><BR>>Frank<BR><BR>_________________________________________________________________<BR>Nuovo MSN Messenger con sfondi e giochi! http://messenger.msn.it/ Provalo<BR>subito!</BLOCKQUOTE>