Seeing Past the Fog- Europe

Sometimes you just need a trip and to step away from it all to see the big picture clearly. Back in May 2014, I hopped on a plane and went to Spain, I flew into Malaga, picked up the rental car and began my journey. I drove to Casa babylon in Malaga and spent my first night there before I began my journey to Sevilla. Malaga was just a city, nothing too special or amazing in my opinion. The next day, the trip to Sevilla was gorgeous. The weather was in the high 70's and low 80's and I sware that Bill Gates used Spain to find all of his beautiful backdrop pictures that come stock on windows computer systems. After getting extremely lost and turned around in Sevilla trying to find my hostel, The Travelers Inn, by Bar Alfalfa, I was able to unpack and settle in to my room for two nights. The first night I ventured out to a couple of bars and roamed around the city for shopping. I found some great jewelry and fun souvenirs for my friends back home. The next day, i went sightseeing. I went to the cathedral, and the arena where they do the running of the bulls. That night I stayed in and read a book while watching the preparations of a ceremony for a saint from my balcony. I also ventured up to the rooftop where I could see the entire city.

I continued on to Cadiz, where I stopped for lunch and then headed across the border to Portugal. I stayed in a small town in portugal and hit up the beaches, which were the most immaculate beaches in pristine condition that I have ever seen. A few things that I learned about Spain: - they use "servicios" instead of bano - they say "Vale" instead of "ok" - in Portugal, if you ask for servicios, they bring you beer After Portugal, I headed to Gibraltar to go see some monkeys on the rock. I took a bus tour which was worth it, we grabbed a few beers for the road and headed up! The view was spectacular.

It was amazing to see Africa from the top of the rock. After I made my descent (in a van, beer in hand of course), I loaded back up and headed to Mijas, Spain, where I would remain in a condo on the beach for a week and surround myself with reading books, good food, an easy goping nightlife, and my favorite thing of all . the horse "Espectaculo!" I ride horses, and have three of my own. To watch the horse show in Spain, was truly an amazing experience. They have excellent skills there for high level dressage. I suppose thats why Europeans tend to master Gran Prix level riding.

Planning the next adventure!! Australia -Bali- Thailand

Plane tix for this happy adventure are about 9k each ] We plan to book our flights from San Antonio to Melbourne, Australia. Take a 12 hour bus ride to Sydney to check out the wharf, opera house and a fairy to Manly beach. Take an all night bus to Coff's Harbour, spend a day and head the 4 hours to Byron Bay. After checking out the beautiful scenery, we will hop on a 9 hour bus that will take us to Noosa. While in Noosa, we will check out the farmers market and the national park and bus all night to Arlie beach then on to Mission Beach where there is a hiking trail to Bicton Point. From there, we will bus to Cairns and tour the Great Barrier reef, which will be booked with pleasure tours. We will then head back to Melbourne and go down to Philip Island which is about 90 minutes SE of Melbourne. Rent a car and drive down the coast on the Great Ocean Road about 700 km and back to experience Bells Beacon (where part of point break was filmed, Otway National park, see the koalas, the London Bridge, 12 apostles and all of the other beauties of the country. Packing includes: Hot pink tank pink and grey tank top black and grey striped tank leopard print pink tank black tank top turquoise tank top grey t shirt pink t shirt blue long sleeve shirt black cardigan/hoodie blue striped cardigan hoodie green hoodie Scarf Snowboard jacket Pink raincoat black leggings Black and white bikini green sarong Knee length blue hiking shorts grey shorts Taupe shorts Black hiking shorts 2 jeans black dress Black pink yellow striped dress Blue flip flops black flip flops Grey tall boots grey tennis/hiking shoes ??pink converse?? grey T sandals fedora hat beanie hat baseball cap 1 pair of fun earrings and necklace headlamp flashlight dry sack jumprope for entertainment