My butt hurts. Too much sitting for two long days of flying and riding the bus 24/7.
But—- this was our view over the airplane wing as we were landing at daybreak in Madrid ….. and this is Joe eating a small breakfast.
We finally arrived in Ponferrada at about 3:45 this afternoon and spend an hour getting lost trying to find our pension. All we had to do was stand over the map looking confused or lift our heads to look for street signs and we had competing old men in suits running to help us. One time a darling female city landscaper took out her earplugs to ask us, ” Espanol ok? English better?” The world is kind.
This picture is the Knights Templar Castle from which they defended pilgrims from robbers. It feels so good to get off our bottoms and onto our feet again.
Lesson for today– when you teach Joe to put a garbage bag inside his backpack to keep all the contents waterproof…. do your own backpack, too.
