Monk parakeet, a problematic invasive species. We just saw out first of the year in Valencia yesterday.

Looks more like a garrila to me.

Ugh. I’ll pretend I didn’t hear that.

Yow! Look at that traffic!

Yeah, like that's going to happen after cycling for real all day.

Those are really vicious. We seem to have managed to remove aĺl that we collected in our roll over the sand. A flat tire would have just about "finished" of our day. Steve checked carefully for flats this morning-nope.

Sitting at a bench now, 32 km beyond Castelldefels. Yesterday was a breeze compaed to cliff hugging no shoulder roads today.

Bike touring is not for the feint of heart. If you are looking for some adventure it will eventually come your way. What a day for you!

That’s the culprit that resulted in our flat. I pulled off 4 or 5 of those clumps off my tires but didn’t inspect close enough for embedded thorns which are very small. The next morning my tire was flat. When I changed the tire I pulled 4 or 5 more thorns making their way towards my inner tube.

There must be a way to cycle safely in and out of Barcelona, but we sure did not find it. You are wise to be using the train, and next time so will we.

It really is frustrating to come up against one of those Google maps gotchas. It seems to take forever to find a real world workaround and if the weather is really bad, or the road you are on is dangerous, it can be hazardous.

And, a view of a fitness center on the extreme right to go use the stationary cycle ! ;)

Hesperia? A town close to San Bernardino in southern CA.

Nice to see your money in use.

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