Camino Tips: How to Get the Most Out of "The Way"

by Jane V. Blanchard

Overview

Camino Tips: How to get the most out of "The Way" is a must-read if you're contemplating hiking the Camino de Santiago. This ebook includes seventy incredibly practical tips to help you prepare, enjoy, and get the most out of "The Way. " It is chock-full of references and links to valuable information.

Camino Tips will help you determine what to do before, during, and after the Camino. Learn how to:

• Select which Camino to walk.
• Choose a starting date.
• Get yourself and your home ready for the Camino.
• Pack the essentials and nice-to-haves.
• Prepare your pack for traveling.
• Prevent injury.
• Prepare for receiving "the gifts" that the Camino has to offer.
• Be a good pilgrim.
• Create lasting memories of this monumental trip.
• Continue the journey after you've completed walking the Camino.

You can never really know what you need to know before you hike your first Camino—and that is good. Surprises make the trip more interesting. But you can plan and prepare for the challenges that will make your Camino unique. These Camino Tips can help you get the most out of "The Way."

Award-winning Sarasota, Florida, author Jane V. Blanchard walked the Camino Francés in 2011 and the Camino Portugués in 2013. She gathered these tips from the research she did before her first trip, from other pilgrims, and from personal experience—good and bad. Jane hopes that by sharing these Camino Tips that you too will have a "Buen Camino."

Product Details

BN ID:	2940152969924
Publisher:	Jane V. Blanchard
Publication date:	04/10/2016
Series:	Woman on Her Way
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Jane V. Blanchard is the author of the award-winning "Woman on Her Way" series. Since retiring in 2011, she has visited sixteen countries by foot and by bicycle and written two books about her wanderings.

Jane was born in Hartford, Connecticut. Upon graduation from college, she worked as a travel guide in Madrid, Spain, and cried at her first bullfight. In 1975, she and her husband Dennis lived in a tent in Winchendon, Massachusetts, for six months (until December) while they built a log cabin. After two years of living off-the-grid, they lived a self-sufficient lifestyle on a five-acre “gentleman's” farm.

Before moving to Sarasota, Florida, she lived in Hampstead, New Hampshire for twenty-four years, where she raised two children, was a soccer and Odyssey of the Mind coach, and received the New Hampshire Excellence in Education Volunteer of the Year Award in 1996. She enjoyed hiking and biking, and climbed twenty of the forty 4,000-foot mountains in New England.
In her fifties, Jane started mountain biking and racing. In 2002, she placed second in the Eastern Fat Tire Association Senior Division. “Even though I was not the fastest competitor, I did attend and complete the majority of that year's races. Just like with the turtle and the hare, slow and consistent wins over fast but sporadic.”

When she married in 1974, her husband Dennis and she joked about creating a lifetime of memories to chat about when sitting in their rockers in old age. Now in her late-60s, Jane is still creating memories, experiencing life as fully as possible, and looking forward to a long future. “I have to live long enough to write about all my adventures,” she says.

In addition to having adventures, Jane enjoys gardening, cooking, reading, and spending time with friends and family.