By the way, tomorrow night (it’s about 2 am Thursday/Friday right now) we’ll be on a sleeper car down to Cordoba or Granada (I forget), so I have no idea when I’ll be able to post again. I can assure you, though, tomorrow will be a day of -spectacular- photos.

Looking down Placa Catalunya — the heart of the city — at sunset

Instead of cluttering up the main page, I’ll put one picture here and the rest on the seconary page … so you’ll have to click the “read the rest of the ariticle” thingy to see a few pictures from our first short afternoon in Spain. I’m very very very very very tired, so it will be short …

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For a moment there we wondered if heading down a dark, small alley
and being surrounded by a not-so-good looking group of guys was a bad
idea…. a really really bad idea. When they started following us as we
looked for the restaurant that was recommended to us, we knew it
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Yeah, forgot to mention that I calculated our paris layover
incorrectly, and it was only 3 hours … no time to go into town from
the airport. My impression of French people: they smoke so much that
vegas smells downright clean — like the rocky mountains! — compared
to how smoky everything is (including the restaurants) in the airport
….. cough cough …

So … Mark M and I went out for a bit while Mark O took a nap.
We’re right next to this street called Las Ramblas, which is where
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Okay … I’m -beyond- tired, but we finally have arrived at our first
hotel. I guess it’s about 8 am California time, it’s about 6 pm here
…. and since we left at 2:30 yesterday, I might have had 3 or 4 hours
sleep.

We’re going to go get a snack now … see ya!

(written at 33,000 feet, halfway through the flight) So … of
course I’m traveling with a couple world-class experts. Mark Ontiveros
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