Strange happenings:
- Ally the hitchhiker with a German accent who claimed she was from North Georgia and wanting a ride for her and her husband. "We are nice people." Mike's reply--"I'm sure you're not ax murderers, but I'm taking no chances with my boy in the car."
- Eduard the Paris train conductor who invited us into the front of the train and turned around to dig in his bag and write us directions while the train was speeding along
- The train in Spain that suddenly stopped and most people got off. We discovered that we needed to catch a bus back to our hotel (no one spoke English)
- We were quite exctied to find Pineda De Mar and to search for some long-lost relatives. Problem was that no one there knew anyone named Pineda.
- Sitting in traffic in Southern France knowing we had at least 12 hours ahead of us and we moved about 15 miles in 2 hours.
- Eating McDonald's 3 times on the road
- Catching all the main sights in Paris by car in about 2 hours.
- It took us about 12 hours to drive across France, which, as somebody pointed out, is about as long as it historically has taken the German army to cross France (couldn't resist)
Here is a statue of Columbus in Barcelona, pointing toward Tennessee, known in his day simply as the Promised Land
Caleb at the Catalonia Plaza in Barcelona, across from the Hard Rock Cafe, where we had lunch (yes, it's fun to eat the local food, but more satisfying to eat something you know)
Train station at Pineda De Mar
Caleb at Cassis, near Marseilles, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea
Arch D'Triumphe in Paris
The Eiffel Tower, even more amazing than we had imagined.
