Coming Home

We were up by 6 am, had room service breakfast (or at least I did), and were out of our stateroom (5099) by 8 am.

We're sitting in the "living room" on deck 1 waiting for our group to be called. Ricky is not feeling well at all.

I tried to get a few pictures of Barcelona from the motorcoach window as we drove from the cruise terminal to the airport. The drive took about 1/2 hour. Because we purchased Viking Air, they took care of all transfers. 

             The airport was big and busy.

                   What a cute little car!

                 Micky D's is everywhere.

People crowding to get on the plane. We got to the airport in plenty of time, but our wait did not feel excessive.

The plane trip was 9 1/2 hours and thankfully uneventful.

We arrived in Austin about 9 pm. We spent the night at the Hyatt at ABIA.

This is our traditional back home breakfast place. Ricky was looking forward to a Mexican breakfast. He ate some of it, but unfortunately it gave him grief later in the day.

We had a happy reunion with Ringo and Honey B and headed for Oatmeal Creek.

Later in the afternoon we went to the BSW clinic in Burnet for medical help. Ricky had a chest xray the next morning. Bloodwork and xray came back normal, so he got no definitive diagnosis. He finally started feeling better two days later.

Thoughts on our trip:

I feel enriched and grateful for all I saw and got to experience. It was an amazing itinerary and I love Viking.

Nothing built by man lasts forever which impressed on me the importance of Seizing the Day.

The reality of aging is that things that once came easy to me now require effort. Physical health and fitness need to be tended to daily or they can be quickly lost.

It feels so good to be back home!