Viva Esapana

Well I am back and I am sorry that is has taken so long for me to do another post. Hopefully that will change very soon. I guess I have not been traveling very much in the last five months. Who knows? Well I am back and this time I am on a different continent. I am in Oviedo, Spain. I left the US on Saturday and I got to my hotel about 2:30 pm on Sunday (11/25). Everything went smoothly and I did not have any trouble. You can have your business class; it was a pretty nice flight with an open seat next to me. I slept for almost all of the 6 hour flight so I feel pretty rested. I did take a nap when I got to the hotel from about 4 pm to about 6 pm. Well that was a bad idea because when I went for a walk pretty much all of the stores were closed. Hopefully they will reopen for dinner so I can get something to eat.

I would say the best story so far was on my flight from Madrid to Asutrias. After standing in the wrong line at the Madrid airport for about 30 mins I get my boarding pass and I am ready to go. In Madrid you only take your shoes off if you are wearing boots or something with a clunky heal. Very nice change. They also give the people that take their shoes off covers so that they do not have to walk on the dirty floor. That was very nice as well. So I board the plane knowing little or no Spanish and all of the sudden a fellow passenger walks up to me and starts speaking in Spanish. At that point I just freeze. I have no idea what to do or what to say. He notices that I have no idea what is going on and he says, “English?” I say yes and they wants to know if I would switch seats with him so that he can sit next to his girlfriend. I say sure and in perfect English like he has lived his whole life in America says, “thanks, man.” And I move to his old seat of 8C. Most of the people that I have spoken with know a good amount of English. I can tell you this, their English is going to be better than my Spanish so we shall see. Later that night am walking around the street and I see him (40 mins from the airport) and we give the universal head nod and he gives it back so I guess it is universal.

We will be doing a lot of different things this week. There will be service calls as well as sales meetings and other things. I have my eye out for some cool Spanish things so we shall see what we bring back. I hope all is well with all of the readers out there and I will be posting more often I promise. MORE To Come.

Peace out.

Kirk