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Spain: we’ve become like locals, and like Santa Claus
Written by paula in Saturday, June 27th 2009   

Even washing your clothes becomes an adventure while traveling. Kim and I needed a laundromat for a good, through machine-cleaning, so we Googled ¨lavandaria,¨ the Spanish word for laundromat, and copied down directions to the nearest one. It was five or six blocks away — quite a distance, we mused. We stuffed our clothes in [...]

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Spain: the avocado farm in Andalucia
Written by paula in Sunday, June 21st 2009   

Success!! We found an avocado farm in Granada that’s happy to take us in. It’s run by a French-Polish couple with three kids, and its the very definition of the word “rustic”: there’s no electricity, limited running water, and we sleep in little yurts. We forged agreement speaking in Spanish on a weak phone signal [...]

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Madrid: Modern Life
Written by paula in Sunday, June 21st 2009   

We caught an 11 p.m. bus out of Málaga that arrived in Madrid at 6:30 a.m. When we pulled in, the cops told us that we can’t take my bike on the subway until 10 a.m., when rush hour ends. We tried to sleep at the bus/subway station for those intermediate 3.5 hours, but the [...]

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Spain: the ultimate bike theft
Written by paula in Tuesday, June 9th 2009   

We arrived in Málaga today, a large metropolitan city on the southern shoreline, filled with palm trees and surrounded by both green hills and some of the bluest, clearest water I´ve ever seen. Kim and I spent the day on the beach and agreed it was the nicest day we´ve had since the trip began. [...]

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Spain: the heavens pour down
Written by paula in Saturday, June 6th 2009   

We got taken in by the police. Seriously. But not in the way you´re thinking. We asked the woman who owns the cybercafe if we could sleep in her establishment after it closes. She pointed us toward a casino and told us to ask the casino owner if we could sleep at his place. He [...]

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Spain: Flipping a coin, finding omens
Written by paula in Friday, June 5th 2009   

So we´ve changed SIX tires — count em, six! — in the last four days. And we both agree ….. this is starting to suck. This sounds like an obvious statement, but the roads here are nothing like Colorado´s roads. At home, a bike ride means cruising down a country road where traffic is sparse, [...]

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Spain: Getting taken in by a family
Written by paula in Wednesday, June 3rd 2009   

The sights from this morning were as breathtaking as I imagined a bike trip through the rural Spain to be. We took small, windy backroads that stretched across vast expanses of green fields, linking small Spanish village to small Spanish village, each one marked by an ancient church steeple. We cycled 30 kilometers and stopped [...]

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Spain: Cycling south
Written by paula in Wednesday, June 3rd 2009   

Our second day of cycling the rural highways of Spain was windy beyond belief. The winds jerked my front handlebars side to side and I felt like I had no control over the bike´s direction. This, as you can imagine, was terrifying. Being swept 3 feet to the left means a certain death, with cars [...]

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Madrid: Starting a cycling tour across Spain
Written by paula in Wednesday, May 27th 2009   

Date: April 2008. I’ve said goodbye to Will for the next 10 weeks. He sang the blues all the way to the airport. Literally. He crooned like a singer of a late-night country radio station ballad about losing his pickup truck and his dog. Except Will’s lyrics lamented losing his Subaru and watching his girlfriend [...]

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