A few good ideas?

In order to help the reader, I've gone back and added some information to the title line of my two previous posts. I hope to be able to carry this forward so as to give a sense of progress to anyone who cares.

The title line each day will include the distance hiked that day in kilometers, based on information in my guide book, followed by a rough calculation in miles and the miles measured by my tracking program, Strava, if available (I don't have a sterling record when it comes to remembering to start the program each morning).

Finally, my accumulated distance will be subtracted from the total estimated length of the Camino de Santiago (which is 778.5 km). If you would like to translate that figure to miles, simply (and approximately) multiply the distance in km by .62. If you're a bloody perfectionist, multiply by .62132306, then get your arse over here and hike it yourself!

Also, if you are ever to travel to Europe you might be interested to know this little tidbit:

When you enter a multi-floor structure you enter the ground floor. Americans, believing everyone should get a participation trophy, number this floor as "1".

When you walk up the stairs to the floor directly above, the rest of the world (including the good folks at Otis Elevator) call this floor "1". We, in America, call this "2", because we know if a fire breaks out on floor "1", you should not break both ankles jumping out the window!

Thinking this through - in taller buildings in the U.S., many have no floor number "13". Does this mean that we then are back in synch with the rest of the world? Or, if our building does have a number "13", and the European building does not, are we now two floors out of synch? If this continues at the same rate, maybe the Buri Khalifa building in Dubai isn't the tallest in the world, it is simply metric!