{"id":10239,"date":"2023-11-06T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T00:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=10239"},"modified":"2026-01-16T13:36:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T13:36:53","slug":"camino-9-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=10239","title":{"rendered":"Camino #9"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am 85% there as far as preparation for my Camino in April 2024 is concerned. My 5th backpack arrived today. I loaded it up with most of my gear, weighted it – 10lbs with 2 waters – perfect! I can exchange one of the waters for something else about 1lb in weight, but for the most part, I am at or under 10lbs. After adjusting the straps, the pack was easy to carry. I will do a 10kms walk and see where the strains are – I’m hoping not many.<\/p>\n

I did have a moment of panic when I went online to check the specs for carry-on luggage. I’m close but just under the wire for height. The weight, width and length are all within the parameters for carry-on. I printed out the specs and put them in a spare pocket of the pack, in case I have to do battle with the airline in April.<\/p>\n

The other delivery today was a small envelope with an address in Mississauga. I didn’t recognize it, so of course, I was curious. It was my 4 flags, which will fit perfectly on the back of my pack. The Scottish flag is marginally larger than the other three – go figure!<\/p>\n

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Since the weather is doing it’s usual ups and downs with temperature changes, I decided I needed a hat for the colder mornings…….and since I have more knitting yarn than anybody needs in a lifetime, I decided to knit myself a hat. I had the colours of the camino – blue and yellow in some odds and ends. I found a black ball of lace weight, which I will treble to use. There was also a large ball of grey that was actually three strands of lace weight already wound together. To lighten the dull colours I used stripes of pink and mauve.<\/p>\n

I decided to knit the hat from side to side in garter stitch and graph the last row to the first row after the provisional cast-on. I didn’t work in the loose ends of yarn, as I added the stripes. They became the pom-pom. So now I can take a little of my life’s work with me on my walk.<\/p>\n

Trust a knitter to spend most of a post outlining the intricacies of a particular pattern. Yes, I did sew-on the iron-on patches and yes, I did spend at least an hour working out the placement of the flags. I promise to post a picture soon!!<\/p>\n

Looking forward to meeting other walkers at a Camino meeting this Saturday.<\/p>\n

Buen Camino<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am 85% there as far as preparation for my Camino in April 2024 is concerned. My 5th backpack arrived today. I loaded it up with most of my gear, weighted it – 10lbs with 2 waters – perfect! I can exchange one of the waters for something else about 1lb in weight, but for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12128,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10239\/revisions\/12128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}