From high over the Atlantic Ocean, this trip is firing on
all cylinders. So many great things so far:
- The flight left on time,
so I will have an extra 4 hours of trip this year.
- The entertainment system
has over 100 movies, very few of which have the words “inspiring” or
“heartwarming” in the description, the elderly woman sitting next to me both
has a cheery hot pink charging cable and doesn’t want to talk (win/win), and
I paid an extra $100 to get a seat with 2.4 bonus inches of legroom, which
means I can move any part of my body without cutting off the blood flow to
any other part of my body.
- I just learned that Madrid
has self-service, pay-as-you-go electric assist bicycles stationed all
around the city. They will be, assuming I don’t get flattened by a bus, a
lot of fun.
Only concerns so far:
- Being from the US, I will
inevitably be associated with Donald Trump. Just this evening I have been
quickly learning Spanish words for select body parts and high-impact
action verbs so that I can assemble creative sentences as needed when the
topic comes up.
- It appears that while Spain
did finally manage to get a president since I last visited (they hadn’t
had one for over a year, and guess what? It didn’t make any difference),
the country still hasn’t abandoned the ridiculous concept of “siesta.” So
yet again, I will have to do all my eating and drinking before 2:00 pm and
after 6:00 pm. Sucks for me.
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