Adventuriety
The sky was dark and low as we drove north out of Madrid on our way to San Sebastian where we would enjoy our final two weeks in Spain before returning home. Scott had planned a low elevation hike somewhere along the route because it was cold and rainy. We would stay out of the higher elevations and cold and wind and instead see the last...
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Adventuriety / Inspirietry
None of us are die hard sports fans. Scott loves playing basketball, he played high school basketball and a year of college basketball and now he plays with the kids in the front yard. He likes watching sports on TV occasionally, he’s even been talking about eating potato chips and watching Monday Night Football when we get home. He usually knows what’s going on in...
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Adventuriety
We spent the night in Segovia and drove back towards Madrid the next day to see El Clasico (more on that in the next blog). Since Segovia is only a short distance from Madrid, Scott had planned a route on the back roads that would allow for a long hike along the trails of Peñalara National Park. We left Segovia without breakfast (or coffee), stopping at a tiny logging...
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Adventuriety
We spent two restful weeks recovering from our frantic Italian pace and learning the rhythms of Toledo. The call of “Lotteria!” became part of the normal sounds of the day and the Italian (ironically) owner of the coffee shop around the corner tried to teach me a few Spanish words during my daily visits for his amazing coffee creations. There were many times that I wandered lost without a...
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Adventuriety
The kids are enrolled in an online school and part of the curriculum is P.E. which I am in charge of (along with History and English). We have been able to stay very active with a lot of hiking and walking and an occasional swim or bike ride but lately the kids have added their own twist to our walks, parkour. Parkour is a discipline developed in...
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Adventuriety
Toledo is an old and beautiful city. It is known as the “city of the three cultures” for it’s history of Muslim, Jewish and Christian peaceful cohabitation for centuries. There are churches, palaces, castles, fortresses, mosques and synagogues behind the medieval walls that surround the old town on the hill. Toledo, a World Heritage Site, is like an open-air museum, you don’t even need to venture inside the plethora of historically significant structures...
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Domesticiety / Recuperiety
We met a beautiful, young couple in Tanzania. She was from Spain, he was from South Africa, they were living and working in Oman, and on safari for their honeymoon. Scott and I were watching the sunset over a coffee plantation, talking about possibly visiting Spain on our next trip, when like a sign we heard the newlyweds discussing their wedding and how their parents were...
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