Friday....UPDATED

The new Home Page photo was taken today on our ride.  Pretty picture, eh?

Here's the Daughter of the Day beside one of the several sunflower fields that we saw on our ride in the country earlier today.  Click on the image to get a full-sized view.  We were in an area of smaller towns just East of Vitoria-Gastiez.  It was no more than 30 minutes by car to this area from our hotel, although we managed to make it in closer to an hour with our navigational skills.

I suppose that if you drove enough in Europe that you would get used to the traffic patterns, but for a rookie driving crew, we keep under-estimating the flow logic employed by the planners.  Just when you think that you have it figured out, they change the street names in the middle of the block, or fail to mention that a road carries two number designations.  Good excuses all to my American Sometimer's.

Here's a pic of our Hertz rental and our bikes.  4's is on the right.  It's a little older model, but it has the same Shimano componentry as my good bike back home, is lighter than mine on the left, and the bike mechanic put the triple crank on it as well!  She'll absolutely kick my keister in the hills.

I really don't have much to add, philosophically, to day, so I'm just going to post a couple more pics.  We're on vacation!  The one is just a scene across the valley that we were riding in this AM.  The second is of our hotel as we came to it this afternoon. It's the building on the left of the pic above the street light.  And the final one is our entry into the lower level parking that I mentioned in yesterday's entry.

So we're off to Italian tonight..in Espana!

BCOT

Later...We did Italian tonight...with Spanish waiters, cooks, wine and everything else!  4 had a Hawaiian pizza, but they called it Piedimonte for the menu.  I did spaghetti with red Bolangese sauce.  Neither was too bad.  Nor was the wine.