We are in Pamplona

We have traveled all day and night and are finally in Pamplona and in our room. This will be the last time we sleep in the same room together alone. The hotel has this internet service so it was easy to send this. We do not believe that we get to another machine until we get back to Pamplona.

The trip was long!!!! We had only one scare as our bags were only checked through to Madrid so we had to go down and get them from the baggage claim area and then reenter the airport and re check in. There was plenty of time to do this so we were not worried but my bag did not come up at the carousel. We waited and waited and began to get weird. They shut down the carousel. More weirdness on our part. Then they started up the carousel for the next plane and what should come out of the bowels of the earth but my pack. Then we had to run for the gate. Again only one small issue we had to go through security again. We made it but considering that we started Monday at 4:00 and it is now about noon on Tuesday our brains are a little fried.

We have flown on three types of airplanes the first a 747 with good seats, TV in the back of each seat for each person, two meals, three snacks and a great crew. We finished on a puddle junper that we were bussed to the plane and then had to stand in the rain to board, flew through thunder storms and landed in an airport smaller than Monterey in the rain, food was a roll, but they had a great crew.

The resturants have finally opened (9:00) so we are going to get a meal, repack our packs, get the rain gear out, get some sleep and take a taxi up to Roncesvalles to morrow to start. This whole day has been a blurr and surreal but what a great start.