I’m back!!!! We got home yesterday after an 8-hour car trip with only one stop for a 5.20€ combo meal at Burger King. That’s $7.63 at the current exchange rage. Both fries and drink were small (or “medium” as the fast food places call small these days). Oh, right! That’s [...]

It’s that time of the year again. Time to head south to Extremadura to fry sweat bask in the un-air-conditioned summer heat for two weeks. This year, I hope to take advantage of the very minimal light pollution and cloud cover in the rural area where we will be staying and take some [...]

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On Monday morning, Juan, Grandpa and I went to a local slaughterhouse to buy a half lamb. We really only wanted a few lamb chops, but they only sold in quantities rounded to the 0.5 lamb. That evening, we had a barbeque out on the patio with the primary objective being [...]

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On Sunday, we drove two hours to Zahínos, the town where my future father-in-law grew up. The main objective was meeting the newest member of the family, the daughter of Marga’s cousin, Ana. She had a harrowing premature birth back in January, and all the doctors were 100% sure that the child [...]

On Friday morning, I cleaned the house a little and headed to Mondragon to pick up Gorka and his suitcase, go to a nearby town to pick up Aunt Marga from work (her oldest son talked her into letting him have the car to drive around Spain with his friends). When we dropped Aunt [...]

Like an epic hero, today I embark upon a journey to go find the woman I love, wherever she may be. I happen to know that she has been in Extremadura ever since she left me 10 days ago. Hopefully my journey will be less wrought with peril and struggle than a typical [...]

This morning I drove Marga halfway to Mondragon where her father met us to take her to Mondragon and later today, she will go with her parents down to Higuera de la Serena in Extremadura. I will go down to visit for a weekend in 10 days.

This weekend, we went to Mondragon to celebrate the birthday of Marce, (Marga’s mother) Alejo (a friend of the family), and Inés (Marga’s aunt). Today is also Mother’s Day in Spain.

Nothing interesting to report lately, so I’m going with a Flickr post for today.

At the in-laws last weekend, we went through some family photo albums to find some pictures for our wedding video. It’s fun to see pictures from 20-30 years ago of people that I know so well. Here are the cutest ones of Marga. I guess it’s only natural that her sister should [...]