Thursday, February 21, 2013

Day 25: A long drive out of Portugal, through Spain and into France (June 8)


Map of France Spain etc 1876
  We wake up and load up the car. Poor Tanner wakes up with a fever. Today is our longest drive of the whole trip - 11 1/2 hours. A good chance for Tanner to sleep a lot and hopefully recover.

   Benson and I take turns driving and the drive is beautiful. Each small town is complete with an ancient church and sometimes city walls. It is fun to watch the white villages turn into stone homes - but still accompanied by a church. I read that cave men didn't actually live in caves, but used them as a place of worship and think that is cool that since the beginning of time, man's relationship with God is central to their lives and their community.


  The landscape turns into a beautiful mountainous area - very different from any other part of Spain - with hotels nestled in, almost like a Vail or Breckenridge. The freeway disappears into tunnel after tunnel with each mountain we come to. We all entertain ourselves with holding our breath through the tunnel. Even Tanner joins in, thinking it's hilarious.
We do other things to entertain ourselves as well.

   "Once we got to there (Biscarosse, France), it was a tiny mobile home! 

We had McDonalds -where had my first set of French fries in France!  It was small but we still had fun We were all tired so everyone crashed. The weather was cold and stormy." Talie.



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