Heading Out....Almost

Hey, nothing like waiting till the last minute to set up a blog for this trip!

I still have a few things on my to-do list, but it is growing shorter all the time.  Good thing, since I leave from Bloomington at 11:00 tomorrow morning.  It has been a long (but lucrative) tax season, and I am more than ready to be out of here for awhile.  My little break in NYC in late February was great, but I need some Spain.

First, I will spend a couple of days in Madrid, then head off to my third Vaughantown experience, this time in a town called Belmonte.  At the end of the week, I will take the train to Leon, where Jorge will meet me for an additional week in northern Spain. We will be basing in Mieres and taking day trips from there.  It will be nice, for a change, to not move around every day.  I will be staying at the Hotel Mieres del Camino.  Then I will take the train back to Madrid and spend the last night near the airport.

I have a four-hour layover in Atlanta tomorrow, then we will leave for Madrid at 5:44 pm, arriving at approximately 8:15 am on Friday.  A guy from my first Vaughantown will be on my flight, and we have assembled a group for lunch and some sightseeing Friday afternoon.

The second week is mostly a mystery, at this point.  Jorge has been making plans for that.  I know that my last full day will be in Valladolid, where I will get the train back to Madrid.  I know of a few options that he was considering, but there is at least one "surprise", too.  I'm pretty much open to anything.

Hoping to get my remaining chores done this afternoon so there won't be any rushing around tomorrow morning, but you know how that tends to go.  :)

I will be carrying my regular phone this time, planning to use mostly wifi, WhatsApp for texting, and a tiny bit of data when necessary.  Planning to use Uber in Madrid instead of taxis, too.

Let's go!