Woke up with jet lag hours.. so diane and I took a quick hike up to duxbury window to shake off our travels

I had to make a quick stop to see eliot at the Echo shop because of a project i’m helping on for work for the upcoming aviation felid days. Alsways great seeing eloit.. One cool thing about visiting him now is that all the Echo Museums fish are living in the warehouse whiel their new aquarium is being built.. I got to talk to all the fish visitors in a ware house house !

Spent the day settlign in. catching up on work, etc.. Late afternoon Diane, Deb and I headed down tot eh South End Art hop its when all the art folks along pine street show off their stuff.. there’s music, food trucks.. and lots and lots of people.. This year I was not involved with any projects.. so I just got to hang out and see people.. Super fun !

nice to be home !

nite all. nite sam

-me

We had a super early flight this morning.. we took the hotel shittle tot he airport , got through cutoms and got on the plane to Zurich. Gabe was on the same plane as diane and I were .. We got to Zurich and Diane and I had a short layover, while gabe ha a longer layover.. We got him ointo the nicest Lufthansa lounge and left him there to eat and drink in luxury…

Diane and I got on our flight and she was sitting right behind me.  was fun  !

the flights were pretty easy.. we got to IAD ealry enough to get an ealier flight hoem which meant we got back to VT in late afternoon instead of near midnight. Tim and Jen picked us up.. |

It was nice to see them
it was nice to be home

it was such a great trip !

nite all. nite sam

-me

This mornign we packed up  and said goodbye to our wonderfull airbnb in Vega de Paz.. It had been such a great stay with max, becky, gabe and steve..  We really recommend anyone out there visit this part of Spain !

The drive back to Bibao was under 2 hours. We got in toto the town.. , parked, and headed to the  Guggenheim Musieam. I love the Guggenheim in NYC>. and have always wanted to see this one n Bibao. What a magnificent building…!   We spent several hours goign through the collection. 
I particuallry loved the giant bent steel peices that you coul walk in and around !

After the museum we walke around the city.. got a bite to eat.. then headed to our airport hotel for dinner and sleep before our early morning flight the next day 

super fun dday.. great way to end our trip !
nite all. nite sam

-me

Our big adventure today was visiting the town of Puente Viesgo about a half hour from where we’re staying. Puente VIesgo is a beautiful little town built on a river in between some rolling hills. It’s famous for its cave paintings.. We were able to get tickets to tour two  of the caves. Cueva  de la  Moenda, Cueva El  Castillo . 
Before we hiked up to the caves we had a great lunch in a restaurant overlooking the river in town..   checkout gabes tounge after eating pasta with squid ink !

the town was really bustling because there was a bike race that started there this morning.. made it a little hard to drive around.. but it didn’t take away from our fun

 

 

After lunch, we walked up the mile or so to the caves. It was a nice climb through some really pretty countryside

The caves ha e some painintgs by ealry humans.. soem dating back as far as 40,000 years.. and many dating back to the last ice age 13,000 years ago.. there were cave paintings  deer, bison and many drawings of hands made by blowing pigment across a hand held to the wall. We werent allowed to take pictures in there.. but I’ll post some I can find on the web. 

THe caves were very cool to see.. great guides.. the tours were in spanish which was fun for me, becky and gabe  who all speak some  rusty spanish  

here are some pictures I found on the web of some of the stuff we saw

We ended the day with a great meal in a mexican restaurant.. which is hard to find in spain !

Max and becky headed back to bilbao to catch their plane tomorrow.. so we said goodbye to them .. Its been so nice having this time with them.. 

DDiane, Gabe and I headed back to Vega de Pas for one more night

nite all. nite sam

-me