Day 16: Driving, Driving, Driving (Saturday, August 23rd)

Our journey home has begun! We all made it out the door and on the road just after 9 o'clock and our GPS told us our drive to Barcelona would be a few minutes less than 9.5 hours, putting us to our hotel around 6:30 this evening. My hope was to pull in around 8 o'clock after all of our stops. We will have an early morning and long day tomorrow with all of our flights so I was hoping to get to bed at a decent time. Our drive was quite uneventful which is probably a good thing. This is pretty much as good as it got! 

Unfortunately about mid-way through our drive we hit some bad traffic that put us back an hour and a half and not too long after that we got stuck in a huge toll line for another hour and 15 minutes before finally moving again. Not too much later we hit some more traffic which put us even further behind. We were unhappy to say the least!

We ended up pulling in around 11:30. So much for our 8 o'clock arrival! Our hostel for the night is really close to the airport, which is great, but it seems to be in a pretty sketchy area. Good thing we'll only be here for a few hours! Here are our sleeping quarters. They're actually really nice!

We have to be up in just a few hours to make it to the airport so I better call it a night! Buenas Noches!

Weather Today:

We had great driving weather today and didn't get hit with anything wet until it lightly rained towards the end so that's definitely a plus!

Tomorrow: Flying, flying, and more flying!