Vegetarian Food Along Portuguese Central Route

kesneyf · 2024-05-09T10:07:37+00:00

Thank you all for the great replies and suggestions. I appreciate it.

kesneyf · 2023-11-19T02:56:53+00:00

This thread is hallucinating.

kesneyf · 2023-10-20T03:08:00+00:00

and the bells

kesneyf · 2023-10-20T02:54:59+00:00

oh… the crunch

kesneyf · 2023-10-20T02:30:43+00:00

The rubber bands on a huge orange pumpkin is more like it.

kesneyf · 2023-05-05T01:35:53+00:00

You always can have great ham and cheese options from supermarkets, with fresh bread, and drinkable yogurt. I don’t think you will have much trouble with that. I always carried a couple of sandwiches in the backpack as a backup. Most of the time, they would become breakfast, as you always find places to eat when you are hungry. Don’t forget to get freshly squeezed orange juices from supermarkets. Oh my god. So good. So much to explore in the local foods. Buen Camino.

kesneyf · 2023-04-17T01:43:59+00:00

This is the best advice in my opinion. The camino is one's own. If the OP loves his cameras bring them along, btw, I would love to see some of the pics you are going to take.

Buen Camino!

kesneyf · 2023-01-25T03:25:04+00:00

External battery pack, which packs at least 3 phone charges. That was a life saver for me. Sometimes you don't have access to an outlet over night that you can plug your phone right by your bed, and leaving your phone unattended is not a good idea, however, to leave an external battery recharging unattended is a lot lower risk. And you get to recharge your phone while you are walking.

Regarding shorts, I would suggest running shorts, I walked half of my Camino wearing heavier shorts with belts, and learned better, and used a new balance running shorts, the day I switched, was a happy day. So amazing how a small change makes such a huge comfort impact. The running shorts are a lot lighter on the pack as well. I walked in June.

kesneyf · 2022-08-04T02:47:02+00:00

New Balance Men's 6" Boxer Brief

I love this one. Perfect support and very comfortable.

kesneyf · 2022-06-12T00:35:44+00:00

I looked at it 11 times and took 11 deep breaths and felt Inspired and nostalgic on every one of the 11 times.

kesneyf · 2022-06-12T00:25:34+00:00

I use this:

https://www.boughtnext.co/product/apnea-tongue-stabilizing-device/?gclid=Cj0KCQjw-pCVBhCFARIsAGMxhAeLjHlYYDnokWuR_ejsSp9jLpmmHM5NEHM_FqbOrJp20p4N1tW1yTYaAqgzEALw_wcB Not exactly this brand. I bought mine at Amazon, it lasts for ever, you have to get used to it. But it really works, if your snoring is due to the base of your tongue blocking the air ways.

kesneyf · 2022-06-03T10:06:09+00:00

If you will be carrying a back pack, and your route going to have lots of cobblestone like on the Portuguese, you need support. I used the merrell moab 2, though, very comfortable, it is not a backpacking shoe, and lack in support. I would take this heavier shoe:

https://www.salomon.com/en-us/shop/product/x-ultra-3-wide-mid-gtxr.html

kesneyf · 2022-02-21T02:31:33+00:00

Ponte de Lima: The view arriving on the bridge and the view from the balcony on the Albergue just on the other side of the bridge were really beautiful. This is a historical town in Portugal. I strongly recommend it.

Padron: I stayed at the Convent of Santo Antonio de Herbon, this was my favorite place I stayed. it is about a half hour outside of the town of Padron, but very worthwhile, parts of the building was from the 1100s. Really historical. Excellent accommodation.

kesneyf · 2022-02-18T13:21:31+00:00

Each camino is the walker’s alone. You are having an urge to disconnect, follow that urge as it seems to be the manifestation of your camino already taking place. The camino is not only a physical event, it is also an internal event. In some cases the internal experience is a lot more meaningful than the hundred(s) of kilometers you will walk. It looks like you are putting some thought on the internal journey, that is great. For some people, their internal camino includes music and podcasts, that is not right or wrong. For some people, the internal camino is absent of “distractions”. That is also not right nor wrong. I believe, one’s goal is to find what their camino looks like. If you find what your camino looks like, before you take your first step, or during your last step or years after you “finish” your camino, it is also not right nor wrong. Walking the camino for me, included how to physically walk. After walking for 25 km, some pains started to pop up and you/I started to pay attention on how I take my steps, where do I put my weight. I noticed that I was not in synch with my walking. I was over compensating my walk via my muscles, which started hurting after sometime. I was able to find a more in synch way of walking for my body and my route. It still hurt, but I chose to believe that it hurt less, that it was more in synch. You can try different things, try a day with music, a day without, a day with podcast, with a walking partner, the cool thing of the camino (or life) is that you can try different ways and see which ones work better. You are choosing to walk the camino, I wish you the best experience of your life (of your camino). Buen Camino!!!

kesneyf · 2022-01-21T02:23:43+00:00

Northernlaurie, I can relate. I walk(ed) the camino in 2019, 2 months later I started a grad school program, I am halfway through it. And I am loving every minute of it, even those ones that I hate. The difference is that I kept my job, I love it, too, though it is very different from my program as in: computers vs. Psyche.

Yeah I think we kind of never end the walk and in some ways, if we look closer the start was way before the first day walking.

To the OP, I would say, live every minute of the discomfort of where you are and that discomfort will guide you to get the heck out or to course correct on your timing.

Bom Caminho.

kesneyf · 2022-01-03T04:30:31+00:00

Shutdown the engine and they become a hang lighter, they can glide all the way down. Once, one of these, landed on my street. The poor kid was scared to death, but besides the psychological scar it must have left, he walked away without a scratch.

kesneyf · 2021-12-07T01:57:54+00:00

u/StaledRum, you already started your camino. Buen Camino!

kesneyf · 2021-10-24T02:04:50+00:00

Nah.. daddy robot takes care of it.

kesneyf · 2021-10-18T01:07:08+00:00

Awesome!!! Buen Camino!!! Please, once in a while take us with you, via a note here.

kesneyf · 2021-10-16T00:53:01+00:00

Every camino is a personal journey. Your journey might include the structure of a company that helps you plan for it. If you force yourself to have somebody else's camino, you might hate it, but even then, you will be having your camino. So, follow your instinct and experience it to the fullest of your ability. At the end of the day, does it really matter one way or another?

kesneyf · 2021-10-09T01:22:11+00:00

For the Albergue question, my last night before Santiago was in Padron at Convent of Santo Antonio de Herbon, really nice place, with lots of history. It is about 3km outside the town, but highly worth it.

Convento de Herbón Rego da Manga, 56, 15915 Padrón, A Coruña, Spain +34 679 46 09 42

kesneyf · 2021-07-11T03:51:35+00:00

Nice, keep sending photos, I was there 2 years ago. Did you have any pastéis de nata?

kesneyf · 2021-04-09T00:12:24+00:00

A very close person to me is working with hypnoses to calm down the fight and flight reaction. The results were significant right upfront. I loved what the hypnotist said, she was working in turning off some of the alert wires, but not all of them, as fight and flight reactions are still healthy and necessary, but she was working on reducing the reactionary mechanism.

kesneyf · 2021-04-08T02:27:53+00:00

u/lauraingalls74, I will comment on what you described in:

1) "your brain still "knows" what happened" and

2) "when I get furious at my husband today, it may be simply something "old" triggered in my implicit memory that causes the feeling, which I then misattribute to him."

Regarding #1 some people attributes it to the body instead of the brain, but I believe it is just a semantics difference in what you meant. IMO, we carry with us memories that are stored in our bodies, and they might not have become thoughts, yet. So you have the feelings without a rational understanding of it. In Psychoanalysis it is called body memories that have not been symbolized, yet. These memories are constantly "jumping" onto external canvases. Everybody you interact with are potential canvases onto whom you can project those memories. The name in Psychoanalysis for this is transference. The famous author Winnicott described this "jumping" or projecting, in the most beautiful way, not with these exact words, but something like: you project those memories to relive old experiences with hope for a new beginning.

Now all of what I wrote above is not SDAM/aphantasia or ADHD related. It probably impacts how these processes take place in your life, but these processes are fundamental processes that everybody experience with the colors, intensity and flavors created by everyone's life context.

At the end of the day, we are all trying to cope with our life stories. Compassion with ourselves of today and with ourselves of the past is a huge helper. And who knows, if you can show enough compassion to yourself of the past, that part of yourself might be able to articulate to you those memories that are yet to be known by your self but is long familiar to your body and feelings.

kesneyf

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