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Destination - La Coruna

I'm going to Spain!!! My flight path was Portland, Oregon to Chichago, Illinois, to Madrid, Spain to A Coruna, Spain.  I was supposed to leave on Thursday morning around 7am and arrive on Friday afternoon around 11:30am.  Caught the "supposed to" did ya?  Well as travel goes, it wasn't exactly according to plan.
That's me waiting to board in Portland. Look how happy I am... That's before they announced the delay due to weather.  No worries though, I had a 4 hour layover in Chicago so I just waited it out.

We boarded about an hour later than we were originally supposed to.  Once we got onto the tarmac to leave though we got news that Chicago was still having issues and now we had to wait about another 40 minutes. Eventually though, we got in the air.

Once we landed in Chicago, because of the delays, there was a back up to get to the gates.  By the time we were able to depart, I'd missed the boarding time for my flight.  I booked it to the gate, fully expecting to have missed my flight, but was actually in time, and even got to go to the bathroom before boarding. Unfortunately though, no time to get food or coffee. Oh well.

The flight to Madrid wasn't packed. I moved to the row behind me and shared it with another guy who moved up, so we each had two seats all to ourselves.  Still wasn't an amazing flight, but it was passable. Better than crammed in the middle with no room to stretch.

Snapped this picture of the Madrid airport as I was trying to find the gate to my last flight.  THAT's the one I missed. Made it to the gate literally just after they'd closed the door. Truthfully though, I didn't really worry about it. I figured they'd get me on the next flight out and worst case scenario... I have to stay in Madrid for the night. Bummer. I just call A.D. find out who to stay with and enjoy the evening. However, there was another flight just about two hours away. The airline gave me a voucher for lunch and I enjoyed that along with...

My first Cafe con Leche. Yum!

Finally arrived in A Coruna. Work had a driver ready for me.  All three of my bags were present and accounted for and off we went. It was a beautiful and quiet ride through the city to my amazingly beautiful hotel!  I got checked in, grabbed the key and headed to the fifth floor where my ocean view home for the next six weeks awaited.  Here's the view from my window...

Yeah, pretty nice if I do say so myself.

So there's the journey.  I've arrived!  I'm here in this beautiful city for the next six weeks. I got here on Friday, class starts on Monday. Friday afternoon, all day Saturday and all day Sunday to explore. Oh, and the weather is supposed to be amazing and sunny and warm... Just may check out those beaches down there...

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