Too Late at the Party

Yesterday was a day of recovery.  It was too windy to fly so everyone was catching up on sleep and life back home via email and Skype.  The crowd of pilots is thinning more each day and that really drives it home that it’s over before it began.  

Because of the lack of available seats on earlier flights back home, the US team is somewhat “captive” here.  Much of the competition organization is still here providing retrieve and logistical help to the remaining pilots.  I’m starting to get the feeling we have stayed a bit too long at the party.  We are that guy who just won’t go home already and is beginning to make the host uncomfortable.  Pretty soon it will just be us and the organization.  We are gonna win this competition one way or another!

Today we all woke ready for some flying.   A quick check of the weather proved very disappointing.  We all had a good laugh when we realized that we were in the only unflyable area in all of Spain.

After taking care of some business and saying adieu to Brad, who is off to Barcelona, we loaded into the rig and headed to the neighboring town of Salamanca.

Salamanca is known for it’s university, it’s 2 cathedrals (the New and the Old) and Plaza Mayor, “the living room of Salamanca.”   We had just enough time, between dodging the rain and a deadline to get back to Piedrahita, to see a few of the sites.

Rob waiting out the rain in front of the  "House of Shells"

Plaza Mayor

View of the cathedral from the Old Roman Bridge (1st  century B.C.)

And then it rained on the plain in Spain.......

Melanie