Craig's blog

Today was the big biking day for this week.  The kids weren’t offered bikes – they went on a ropes course instead.  The rest of us headed on a 70 km trek up over the highest paved rode in Spain (6200’).  It was only about 3200’ of climbing, but it was a long, constant climb, like Mt. Hamilton.  Patty and Jim did almost all of it, they took the van “boost” for the middle 8K of the climb.  We then descended 25 km to lunch which was an awesome descent.  We then descended another 10 km to get on the bus (and meet up with our kids.

It was a spectacular ride, certainly in the top 10 I’ve done, maybe the top 5.  The terrain was varied and spectacular.  The ride up reminded me of Passo Giau that we did in the Dolomites.  The descent looked more like the Sierra with pines.  The weather was perfect – cool and cloudy, but no rain.  It was awesome.

We then boarded a bus and drove to the town of Figueres where we went on a tour of the Teatre Museu Dali – a museum made by Salvador Dali, who was a wild artist of the 20^th century.  It was pretty crazy and great to have a tour guide to help us understand the unusual works.

We then took the vans and a taxi to our hotel just outside of town.  It’s an old Spanish farmhouse that is beautiful.  After showering, we had a wine tasting and then a nice dinner outside in the very comfortable air.  Another great day!