Canary Bound

We left Granada still with hopes of getting to the Canaries. Got some bummer news when we found a computer, the price of the ferry we were hoping to hop from Cadiz to Santa Cruz La Palma quadrupled in price over night. We were looking at 1900 euros. That's about $2580. We would have booked them earlier but the website had some glitch that prevented us from buying them, and we thought we could just go get them. Whatever. Last minute round trip plane tickets were much more affordable, but still kinda pricey. They leave from Madrid, seven hours away from Cadiz. We hope they let us have the tickets, the concern beeing that the booking site didn't like the credit card, or the price was too much for an American card or something. UGGH!!!!

On a better note, we are almost to Cadize and the road trip has been so much fun. Since we drove down the coast, when ever we needed to take a break from driving, we just went to the beach. We drove for a whole day in our bathing suits and wet car seats. Too cool! We slept two nights in the Fiat, one night at a rest stop, the other on the beach. The second night zoey was super tired so I took a 40 to the beach and sat and watched the water crash toward me. The beach was kinda empty except for some people watching a kung fu soccer movie on a make shift movie screen. Dad knows the film. Anyway... I just sat there amazed with the water. So loud. So beautiful. The moon was full and the tide was busy. I can see how people fall in love with the ocean. Not that I love her but I do think I have a crush on her.

Last night we meet a man on the spanish wwoofer site that has a ruin that he is in the process of building up. The house was maybe built 100 years ago with no one in it the last 20 or so years. He and his wife are from England and he works in the Caribbean as a landscape engineer. We just had the night there and it was so nice not to sleep in a car for a change.

Today we drove down to Granada and spent the day (with the bummer news) and I drove through the Sierra Nevada mountains around the city. The climb on the mountain was very steep, and the road was super narrow. I had fun. Zoey Liked the view more than the ride up.