1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,600 What's up y'all? 2 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:12,240 Thanks for joining the Travel Tales and Talk podcast with Derek and Makayla. 3 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:13,240 I'm Derek. 4 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:14,240 I'm Makayla. 5 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:20,680 Thanks for listening and enjoy the show. 6 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:23,720 The road to Rwanda. 7 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:27,920 So let's start out by asking the question, why Rwanda? 8 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:34,520 Oh, because there was a beautiful bridge that I saw all over social media and you know how 9 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:35,520 I am. 10 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:36,520 I gotta see it in person. 11 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:37,520 I see it online. 12 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:38,840 I gotta see it in person. 13 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:42,280 So we're going to Rwanda for Instagram pictures. 14 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:43,280 Wow. 15 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:44,280 Don't do me. 16 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:48,960 But I will say this, great photographs, great photographic opportunities. 17 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:51,760 It was a breathtaking view. 18 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:57,440 And Rwanda was also an overnight stop for us to our next destination. 19 00:00:57,440 --> 00:01:03,080 So it was like the middle point, staging area, so to speak, for our next endeavor on this 20 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:04,080 trip. 21 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:05,080 Yes. 22 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:10,800 What are some things that you wish you would have known before you arrived? 23 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:13,880 Things I would have wished I knew before we arrived. 24 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:20,240 I would have liked to have known the exact location of how to, like the address of how 25 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:23,040 to get to the parking place. 26 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:24,040 The exact coordinates. 27 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:25,040 Yes. 28 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:31,240 And to see the bridge, because the bridge, it literally looks like something off of Lord 29 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:32,240 of the Rings. 30 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:33,240 It's... 31 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:37,040 Wasn't that location a part of Game of Thrones? 32 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:38,040 Game of Thrones? 33 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:39,040 Yes. 34 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:40,840 There was places in there that film for that. 35 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:41,840 Okay. 36 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:42,840 I wasn't sure. 37 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:43,840 So the bridge is massive. 38 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:45,680 It's like the bridge over the canal. 39 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:51,320 But we couldn't figure, like we asked two people and they both gave us directions. 40 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:53,480 And they both are wrong. 41 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:58,760 They both did not take us to the parking spot at the bottom of the canal. 42 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:00,600 So we had to end up walking it. 43 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:03,000 And the GPS would lead us astray. 44 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:04,000 Yes. 45 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:05,280 The GPS wouldn't even take us there. 46 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:12,200 So with us walking from the top of the bridge, like on top of the bridge, down to the bottom 47 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:13,200 of the canal, whew. 48 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:14,200 Man. 49 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:15,200 What a step. 50 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:16,200 What a walk. 51 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:17,200 It was a lot. 52 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:19,720 It was a lot of stairs. 53 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:20,720 It was a hike. 54 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:21,960 It was a legit hike. 55 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:22,960 I wasn't prepared. 56 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:25,160 I had on sandals, a long flowy dress. 57 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:26,160 Because you had to take those Instagram pictures. 58 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:27,160 Because you know I had to have. 59 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:28,160 Hey, don't do me. 60 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:32,000 You love them pictures too, so don't play. 61 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:33,000 But I would have- 62 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:34,000 Give you the pictures. 63 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:40,880 I would have, I should have worn support tennis shoes or hiking boots. 64 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:43,480 I should have brought water. 65 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:44,480 And- 66 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:46,360 We should have had a bag with those materials. 67 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:51,680 You wear your hiking shoes down so you can change into your Instagram shoes. 68 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:52,680 Oh my goodness. 69 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:53,680 No, seriously. 70 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:54,680 Seriously. 71 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:55,680 We were not prepared for that. 72 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:56,680 But we're not prepared. 73 00:02:56,680 --> 00:02:59,920 Because it was a legit hike to the bottom. 74 00:02:59,920 --> 00:03:08,480 And what's crazy, that view is so beautiful that it, you know how when you're just like 75 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:12,280 on a computer or on your TV screen and like- 76 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:13,280 Screensaver shows up. 77 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:14,860 Screensaver show up. 78 00:03:14,860 --> 00:03:23,080 The actual picture that, you know of that bridge showed up on one of our screensavers 79 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:24,080 on the TV. 80 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:26,600 And I asked Derek, say hey how did you get our picture on the TV? 81 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:27,920 It's like I didn't take that picture. 82 00:03:27,920 --> 00:03:28,920 No, that's a screensaver. 83 00:03:28,920 --> 00:03:29,920 It was built into the TV. 84 00:03:29,920 --> 00:03:31,560 It was built, I was like wow. 85 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:36,240 I took the exact same picture of that bridge that was in the screensaver. 86 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:37,360 So hey, it was worth it. 87 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:38,360 It was worth it. 88 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:39,360 It was worth it. 89 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:40,360 And I had to stop now. 90 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:43,700 You know of course going down the stairs is easier than climbing up. 91 00:03:43,700 --> 00:03:47,280 So I- Proper shoes can go a long way. 92 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:52,640 I think we had to take maybe four legit stops for me to catch my breath. 93 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:54,240 Yeah, it was a lot. 94 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:55,840 I would have changed my workout. 95 00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:58,720 Yeah, you do need to get, you gotta be in shape. 96 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:03,480 I would have did more of the stair master prior to Rhonda. 97 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:05,480 It's a lot of stairs. 98 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:10,960 I thought we were gonna park and someone would take it like a golf cart to this location. 99 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:18,920 This is on your own, totally on your own if you wanna take this picture or see this site. 100 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:19,920 Bring water. 101 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:21,840 I don't think we brought water. 102 00:04:21,840 --> 00:04:23,240 No, I definitely didn't. 103 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:24,880 We were totally not prepared. 104 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:27,480 I had on a t-shirt and a flowy skirt. 105 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:28,480 I was cute. 106 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:29,480 I was cute. 107 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:30,480 Don't play. 108 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:31,480 You were cute. 109 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:33,520 But yeah, I paid for it in the end. 110 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:34,520 Yes, you did. 111 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:42,880 So some regrets that I have about Rhonda, well, not really going to Rhonda was not a 112 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:46,680 regret but not getting there sooner, not spending enough time. 113 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:51,760 I underestimated the things to do in Rhonda. 114 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:52,760 So we showed up. 115 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:53,760 The beauty of Rhonda. 116 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:54,760 Yeah, it was beautiful. 117 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:59,360 And we showed up around four, didn't have a plan, literally had no place to stay. 118 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:00,360 No plan, no hotel. 119 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:01,360 You know how we do. 120 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:02,360 No hotels. 121 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:04,240 We do have a plan but we never have a hotel. 122 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:05,240 Never had a hotel. 123 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:11,680 So we showed up and I had did my research before we got there and I said, hey, this 124 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:15,160 YouTuber said try this hotel over here. 125 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:16,600 So we drove into the parking lot. 126 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:18,480 I'm thinking, oh, we about to get a room wrong. 127 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:20,080 They were like, we're booked up. 128 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:21,080 I'm like, booked up. 129 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:23,560 What's going on in Rhonda? 130 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:24,560 What is going on? 131 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:29,440 Because everyone on YouTube says Rhonda is one of those places that people come in for 132 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:31,080 day trips and then they leave. 133 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:32,080 Then they leave. 134 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:33,480 They don't typically stay overnight. 135 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:36,520 So I wasn't expecting to be turned away. 136 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:38,280 Yeah, turned away. 137 00:05:38,280 --> 00:05:45,760 And then we found another hotel that was literally right off of that bridge. 138 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:46,760 It was built on the cliff. 139 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:48,560 It was on the side of a cliff. 140 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:49,560 Don Miguel. 141 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:50,560 Don Miguel. 142 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:51,560 The Don Miguel Hotel. 143 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:53,840 Don Miguel and the guy, he was so sweet. 144 00:05:53,840 --> 00:05:55,200 We checked in. 145 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:57,400 He had a room available. 146 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:01,200 Now mind you, it was that question, how many is in that room? 147 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:02,200 Yep. 148 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:04,280 He was like, how old is your child? 149 00:06:04,280 --> 00:06:05,280 Right. 150 00:06:05,280 --> 00:06:07,480 And we had to get a whole bed for her. 151 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:09,640 So we had. 152 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:11,240 There's no getting around that. 153 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:13,120 They do not play about that accuracy. 154 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:14,120 Nope. 155 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:15,720 Basically, we're going to bill you as three adults. 156 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:16,720 Yep. 157 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:17,720 But he was sweet. 158 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:21,680 Rhonda's a really small city. 159 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:24,120 So there's not very many places to park. 160 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:27,800 The streets are extremely narrow. 161 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:28,800 They are tiny. 162 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:30,840 They're really tiny. 163 00:06:30,840 --> 00:06:35,040 The streets are about as wide as a staircase. 164 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:37,520 Because it was built for horse and buggy. 165 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:38,520 Yes. 166 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:39,520 Yes. 167 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:40,520 That is exactly. 168 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:41,520 Horse and buggy. 169 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:44,120 So that'll give you an idea of how narrow these streets are. 170 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:46,840 Just imagine a carriage coming through. 171 00:06:46,840 --> 00:06:47,840 That's how wide. 172 00:06:47,840 --> 00:06:50,160 So the guy parked our car for us. 173 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:51,160 We didn't know where. 174 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:54,520 We didn't know where he put this car to the next day. 175 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:59,080 And crazy part about it, when we go try to find the car, I was like, I have no idea what 176 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:00,080 this car looks like. 177 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:01,760 Oh, because we hit the rental car. 178 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:02,760 We had the rental car. 179 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:04,640 And then I forgot the keys at the front desk. 180 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:08,560 I'm like, I don't know what this car looks like. 181 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:09,560 I totally forgot. 182 00:07:09,560 --> 00:07:11,440 I'm like, is it a Chevy? 183 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:12,880 Is it a Volkswagen? 184 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:17,040 What kind of car is this? 185 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:26,120 So another regret that I have is that we did not go see the bullfighting ring in Rhonda. 186 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:27,280 Partly because we got there so late. 187 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:28,600 Yeah, we got there so late. 188 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:35,520 It was only open maybe 30, 40 minutes before it closed when we got there. 189 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:40,240 And we thought, oh, we'll just come back to that, not realizing that you're talking about 190 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:46,560 the oldest bullfighting ring, not just in Spain, but in the world. 191 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:48,120 The first bullfighting ring ever. 192 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:50,720 And it was beautiful from the outside, you guys. 193 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:51,720 Beautiful. 194 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:52,720 It was actually... 195 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:54,160 It's well maintained. 196 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:59,560 It's well maintained, but it actually appeared in one of the episodes of Game of Thrones. 197 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:05,080 It was the episode when Daenerys was in the bullfighting ring and her dragon flew in. 198 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:09,240 Well, it wasn't considered a bullfighting ring then, but she was in a ring and her dragon 199 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:13,560 flew in and kind of blew the fire and protected all of them. 200 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:15,600 What season was that? 201 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:16,600 I don't know. 202 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:18,240 Nevermind, because I've never watched Game of Thrones. 203 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:19,600 Maybe season three or four. 204 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:20,600 I need to watch Game of Thrones. 205 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:23,720 Because the dragon wasn't full size, but it was pretty big. 206 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:27,120 She could ride it then. 207 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:30,800 We missed out on the underground staircase. 208 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:36,960 I know you mentioned something about that, where the Spanish came in and hijacked the 209 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:37,960 Moors from underground. 210 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:41,440 Yes, but I wanted to go back to the bullfighting ring real quick. 211 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:46,960 Before we leave the bullfighting ring, I mentioned before that it was the first bullfighting 212 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:48,400 ring in the world. 213 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:56,800 But it kind of got that title on a technicality because the bullfighting ring in Seville, 214 00:08:56,800 --> 00:09:01,840 Spain, they actually started building that one first. 215 00:09:01,840 --> 00:09:09,600 But because Rhonda finished theirs first and had their first corrida, which is the bullfight, 216 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:13,000 they got the title of the first, the oldest or whatnot. 217 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:15,200 Yeah, that is a technicality. 218 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:21,440 And I wish we had a wint to the Reiserva Tauro, I'm not saying that right. 219 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:28,320 But it's basically the place where they breed the bulls and the Andalusian horses. 220 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:29,880 You guys? 221 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:30,880 That's in Rhonda? 222 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:31,880 Yes. 223 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:34,240 It was less, it was about three miles away. 224 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:35,240 Wow. 225 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:38,840 Because when we were there, I mentioned it to Derek, it's like, hey, I want to go to 226 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:44,040 this farm because they let you have like a little makeshift bullfighting lesson. 227 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:45,040 That is in Rhonda. 228 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:46,240 Yeah, it was in Rhonda. 229 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:49,040 And I could not find it. 230 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:52,800 Like I was going through my phone, like where did I see this information? 231 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:54,720 Could not find it. 232 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:58,840 And we ended up missing out because I wanted to see the Andalusian horses too, because 233 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:00,440 the horses are beautiful. 234 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:03,760 I just heard that on my Duolingo. 235 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:08,320 I listened to a podcast, Duolingo, and they just talked about that. 236 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:11,240 And I was like, how did I overlook that? 237 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:12,240 Yeah, it was, yes. 238 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:14,760 And I think it was only seven euros or something. 239 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:15,760 It was very inexpensive. 240 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:16,760 Yeah, very inexpensive. 241 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:19,280 And you get to see the bulls that they raise. 242 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:21,560 Yep, the bulls they raise, the horses too. 243 00:10:21,560 --> 00:10:22,560 Yep. 244 00:10:22,560 --> 00:10:23,560 Oh. 245 00:10:23,560 --> 00:10:24,560 Less than three miles away. 246 00:10:24,560 --> 00:10:25,560 So we definitely. 247 00:10:25,560 --> 00:10:26,560 We dropped the ball. 248 00:10:26,560 --> 00:10:27,560 We did. 249 00:10:27,560 --> 00:10:28,560 Oh. 250 00:10:28,560 --> 00:10:29,560 We dropped the ball on that one. 251 00:10:29,560 --> 00:10:30,560 Yeah, we played around Rhonda. 252 00:10:30,560 --> 00:10:31,560 So much so. 253 00:10:31,560 --> 00:10:32,560 Yes. 254 00:10:32,560 --> 00:10:33,560 So much so. 255 00:10:33,560 --> 00:10:34,720 We're going to come back to... You want to tell them how we... 256 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:35,720 What? 257 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:37,880 About you, you driving around Rhonda? 258 00:10:37,880 --> 00:10:38,880 Not yet. 259 00:10:38,880 --> 00:10:39,880 Not yet. 260 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:43,160 Driving around Rhonda was frustrating. 261 00:10:43,160 --> 00:10:46,160 It got my pressure up, as grandma would say. 262 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:49,880 You couldn't tell me we weren't 007 agents up in Rhonda. 263 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:53,240 Man, those streets are so tiny and compact. 264 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:56,920 And GPS is 50-50 with Rhonda. 265 00:10:56,920 --> 00:10:59,640 It's like, maybe this is a street, maybe it's not. 266 00:10:59,640 --> 00:11:01,040 Roll the dice. 267 00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:04,120 So be careful. 268 00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:08,280 But back to what you were saying about the underground staircases. 269 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:11,720 You want to tell us a little bit about that? 270 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:12,720 No. 271 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:20,360 Because I saw a different... When I was doing my research about the staircase, I got different 272 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:21,360 information. 273 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:28,160 You were telling me that the Spanish came in through that staircase to invade the city, 274 00:11:28,160 --> 00:11:29,560 and I got something totally different. 275 00:11:29,560 --> 00:11:30,560 Okay. 276 00:11:30,560 --> 00:11:31,560 Well, tell me what you got. 277 00:11:31,560 --> 00:11:36,880 Well, I got that the staircase just takes you down to see the river. 278 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:37,880 Yes. 279 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:45,040 And it didn't mention anything about an invasion from the Spanish to take over. 280 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:47,120 Maybe I went to a bad site. 281 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:48,120 I don't know. 282 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:49,120 Maybe. 283 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:55,080 Look, don't quote me on it, but all I do remember is that somebody came in through the river, 284 00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:59,440 and they used those stairs to come up and take over the town. 285 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:00,440 Right. 286 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:01,440 That's how they got in. 287 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:02,440 Yeah. 288 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:03,440 Ferdinand, it's under Ferdinand and Isabella. 289 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:04,440 Yeah. 290 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:06,440 Well, we'll have to circle back down. 291 00:12:06,440 --> 00:12:15,480 The same king and queen that financed Columbus's voyage to where we live in the United States. 292 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:16,480 To the New World. 293 00:12:16,480 --> 00:12:17,480 To the Americas, right? 294 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:18,480 To the Americas. 295 00:12:18,480 --> 00:12:21,480 Well, Columbus didn't come up here. 296 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:22,480 No. 297 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:23,480 South America. 298 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:24,480 He was Caribbean. 299 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:25,480 Caribbean. 300 00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:26,480 Caribbean. 301 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:27,480 Ooh. 302 00:12:27,480 --> 00:12:29,480 We got to do our research, y'all. 303 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:30,480 Apologies. 304 00:12:30,480 --> 00:12:31,480 We have to do more of it. 305 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:33,480 There's a lot of information out there. 306 00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:34,480 A lot of information. 307 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:38,760 You got to figure out what's true, what's not, what's hearsay, what's fact. 308 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:45,000 Yes, but I do know that they came in on the water and they used those staircases to come 309 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:46,000 up. 310 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:47,000 Yeah. 311 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:49,760 Because Rhonda is built into a cliff. 312 00:12:49,760 --> 00:12:50,760 Yeah. 313 00:12:50,760 --> 00:12:53,080 Yeah, cliffside, that's where we stayed. 314 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:59,480 Yes, because our hotel, Don Miguel, why I love it so much is we were literally on a 315 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:00,960 cliff. 316 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:04,760 We had big, huge- Windows. 317 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:07,840 Windows that you can sit in, little bay windows. 318 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:12,120 They were kind enough to put bars on them because we were hanging over- 319 00:13:12,120 --> 00:13:13,120 The cliff. 320 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:14,120 Yeah, the cliff. 321 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:15,120 We were hanging over the canyon. 322 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:17,600 Like water flowed underneath us. 323 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:18,600 We could hear it. 324 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:23,040 Yeah, it was so beautiful that night we slept with those windows open and just listened 325 00:13:23,040 --> 00:13:25,280 to the rushing water. 326 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:27,160 Yeah. 327 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:29,960 No intruders were going to climb up, so we were good. 328 00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:32,480 Look, if they climbed up that cliff, they deserved to get in. 329 00:13:32,480 --> 00:13:33,480 They can take us. 330 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:34,480 Yes. 331 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:35,480 They can take us. 332 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:36,480 They can take us. 333 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:40,840 We're on the road to Rhonda. 334 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:49,000 We're coming from Corboda to get to Rhonda and then we come across our infamous European 335 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:55,520 signs, street signs, and we saw 120 miles per hour. 336 00:13:55,520 --> 00:13:56,520 Wrong. 337 00:13:56,520 --> 00:14:01,240 It's not 120 miles per hour, 100 kilometers. 338 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:03,280 Kilometers per hour. 339 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:10,640 Which is about 73, 74- I thought I was going to be able to do 120. 340 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:13,960 I was like, ooh, I'm going to smoke these tires. 341 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:14,960 I was wrong. 342 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:20,040 Glad I didn't because I did not want that speeding ticket. 343 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:27,800 We cannot stress enough that please, if you're going to drive in a foreign country, you got 344 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:30,760 to study those traffic laws and their signs. 345 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:31,760 Pull up their signage. 346 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:32,760 Yeah, pull it up. 347 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:33,760 So important. 348 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:38,280 Because they're not- once again, they're on the metric system and we're on the imperial 349 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:44,240 system here in the States, so that'll get you because on the interstate to Sevilla, 350 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:45,240 I saw what, 90. 351 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:48,440 I was like, oh, that's not 90 miles per hour. 352 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:53,520 I had to keep reminding myself it's not miles per hour. 353 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:54,520 No. 354 00:14:54,520 --> 00:14:58,680 Because you know how some cars will have both? 355 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:07,080 I know our cars in the States are not even- I know the rental cars here will have kilometers 356 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:08,080 and miles. 357 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:10,840 They're on the same, but I don't think there were any in Spain. 358 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:11,840 It wasn't. 359 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:12,840 It was all- 360 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:13,840 It was not both. 361 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:14,840 In KM. 362 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:16,840 We had to Google it. 363 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:20,840 So, 120 is 73, 74 miles per hour. 364 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:22,600 So be aware. 365 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:24,240 That's a call out there. 366 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:32,400 And on this road to Ronda, Makala's driving, following GPS once again, and we make a wrong 367 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:36,640 turn down a one way. 368 00:15:36,640 --> 00:15:38,640 And that's where we come across our friend. 369 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:40,280 Oh, okay. 370 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:46,440 So like we mentioned in a previous episode, they have these Pueblos Blancos, like these 371 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:49,120 white towns. 372 00:15:49,120 --> 00:15:50,400 And we come through one. 373 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:54,000 And they're white towns because all the buildings are white. 374 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:58,520 And they're painted white because it gets so hot down there that white is a cool color. 375 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:02,520 So the cars are white, the building is white, everything's white, okay? 376 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:04,920 And it's beautiful, beautiful from the road. 377 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:08,760 But anyway, I'm driving, my GPS is telling me to go this way. 378 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:13,480 And then this guy pulls over and he's like- 379 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:14,800 This is after you make the wrong turn down a one way. 380 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:17,200 I made a wrong turn because I was about to go head on to him. 381 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:18,200 I think he said- 382 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:19,200 That's how he knew. 383 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:22,080 Hey, they're lost, they have no idea where they're going. 384 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:24,960 He says, let me help you, where are you going? 385 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:27,680 And I said, to Ronda, he says, okay, follow me. 386 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:30,520 Now, all this is in Spanish, right? 387 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:32,000 Keep in mind, he said, follow me. 388 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:33,560 He said it, he said it. 389 00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:35,200 See, he got me, right? 390 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:37,400 Follow me, follow me. 391 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:45,960 And man, I turn, I start following him, but then my GPS tells me to turn left. 392 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:46,960 He's going straight. 393 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:51,880 And I was like, I'm gonna turn left because he might be leading us to our death. 394 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:52,960 I don't know. 395 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:58,440 So I turn and the next thing I know, I'm going down the street and this man cuts us off. 396 00:16:58,440 --> 00:17:00,280 He was like, follow me. 397 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:03,320 I said, follow me. 398 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:09,120 And I was like, you know what, because at that time we did hit a wrong turn. 399 00:17:09,120 --> 00:17:10,120 No. 400 00:17:10,120 --> 00:17:11,120 GPS was trying to turn us. 401 00:17:11,120 --> 00:17:12,720 They were doing construction in the town. 402 00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:16,200 That road was blocked, so we couldn't go that way. 403 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:17,200 And he knew that. 404 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:18,200 Right. 405 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:23,040 And see, and then the constructions did not show up on GPS. 406 00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:26,280 So after that, I said, let me follow this man. 407 00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:29,000 And the man legit got us out of the town. 408 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:33,320 And when he got to the last turn, he pulled over to the gas station and said, this is 409 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:34,320 it. 410 00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:36,080 You just keep going and you make it to Ronda. 411 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:37,080 Keep straight. 412 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:38,080 You know, follow way. 413 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:42,640 I was like, wow, thank you. 414 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:43,960 This man cut us off. 415 00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:45,840 No, I said, follow me. 416 00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:47,640 He sure did. 417 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:50,160 I felt like the five was pulling us over. 418 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:51,160 We needed a ticket. 419 00:17:51,160 --> 00:17:56,240 He, I mean, he was like, if I hadn't slammed on my brakes, we would have hit this man. 420 00:17:56,240 --> 00:17:57,560 He was serious about helping us. 421 00:17:57,560 --> 00:17:58,680 This man cut us off. 422 00:17:58,680 --> 00:17:59,680 He sure did. 423 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:01,280 He said, no, he sure did. 424 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:02,360 He got us real good. 425 00:18:02,360 --> 00:18:08,840 So then we, we get to Ronda and I'm following this GPS and it would get down one of the 426 00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:11,680 really narrow streets. 427 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:14,400 And I was like, okay, Derek, GPS is turned right here to the right. 428 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:15,400 And Derek was like, are you sure? 429 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:16,400 I was like, yeah, I'm positive. 430 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:18,400 And Derek was like, are you sure? 431 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:20,680 I was like, yes, look at the screen. 432 00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:22,720 It says turn right here. 433 00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:27,960 And so we turn and the car goes, it goes, it goes. 434 00:18:27,960 --> 00:18:33,080 And then I look, and we are on a flight of stairs. 435 00:18:33,080 --> 00:18:36,040 Derek has pulled the car on a flight of stairs. 436 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:39,560 And he was like, at that time we were only down like the first three steps. 437 00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:42,440 Ooh, that's still too many steps to be down. 438 00:18:42,440 --> 00:18:45,680 And then he tries to reverse it. 439 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:50,680 And every time he throws a car into reverse, we go down more steps. 440 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:56,080 By the time he finally just quit, we were almost to the bottom of this flight of stairs. 441 00:18:56,080 --> 00:18:57,080 We're not that far down. 442 00:18:57,080 --> 00:19:02,280 What's crazy is that the flight of stairs is in between like two streets. 443 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:05,920 It was very odd because at the bottom of the stairs, there were cars parked. 444 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:08,560 No, at the bottom of the stairs, there's a road. 445 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:15,480 Yeah, it's like that road butts up to these stairs and there was cars parked right there. 446 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:18,560 Which is part of the reason why I turned because I saw the cars. 447 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:20,760 So I assumed- It was just like another hill. 448 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:21,760 Just a hill. 449 00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:24,000 Because like I said, Rhonda is built on a cliff. 450 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:25,000 It's built on a mountain. 451 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:26,000 It's a hill. 452 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:29,240 So all the roads are very hilly. 453 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:34,160 So we were elevated and when you look to that right, we just saw cars at the bottom. 454 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:36,320 We thought it was just another road. 455 00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:38,480 We didn't realize it was a flight of stairs. 456 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:41,840 So there was no barricade at the top of these stairs nor the bottom. 457 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:44,040 No crazy European signage or nothing. 458 00:19:44,040 --> 00:19:45,040 Nothing. 459 00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:47,240 And so Derek is just sitting there. 460 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:48,840 He's yelling, hitting the steering wheel. 461 00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:49,840 Oh, I'm telling on you. 462 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:51,280 He had a complete meltdown. 463 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:55,440 I had a meltdown because I thought I had just bought a rental car. 464 00:19:55,440 --> 00:19:56,960 I just figured like, you know what? 465 00:19:56,960 --> 00:20:01,480 We're going to tear this car up so much that they're going to make us buy this rental car. 466 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:03,040 I just knew he was going to burn up the clutch. 467 00:20:03,040 --> 00:20:06,280 And then the killing part about it- The locals. 468 00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:09,040 There were locals just walk past us, mean mugging us. 469 00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:11,960 Mean mugging like you stupid foreigners. 470 00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:12,960 Yes. 471 00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:17,080 And then there was this couple that we saw them before we made that right turn. 472 00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:20,200 We saw this couple coming up the street. 473 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:23,160 And when they saw us go down the flight of stairs, they just stood- 474 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:24,160 Stopped. 475 00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:27,760 They just stopped at the top of the stairs and just watched us. 476 00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:32,600 I feel like if the woman had a box of popcorn, she would have been eating it, watching us. 477 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:34,400 I was waiting for them to pull out the camera. 478 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:36,120 I'm like, they're going to record this. 479 00:20:36,120 --> 00:20:40,080 This is going to be all over social media. 480 00:20:40,080 --> 00:20:42,360 That turned my intensity up too. 481 00:20:42,360 --> 00:20:44,040 I'm like, oh, I'm going to go viral. 482 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:45,040 I was embarrassed. 483 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:51,000 My man in here screaming like a child, London Rose in the backseat, like what is going on? 484 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:54,080 And I don't know if you asked for help or what. 485 00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:55,080 No, I asked for help. 486 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:58,840 I got outside and I said, look, we don't really drive stick ships in America. 487 00:20:58,840 --> 00:20:59,840 Does he speak English? 488 00:20:59,840 --> 00:21:00,840 Did the guy speak English? 489 00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:01,840 Yeah, he spoke English. 490 00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:02,840 Okay. 491 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:03,840 He spoke English. 492 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:04,840 I said, we don't really drive stick ships in America. 493 00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:05,840 I can drive it. 494 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:06,840 I can't figure this out. 495 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:07,840 Can you help me? 496 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:08,840 He's like, yeah, I can help you. 497 00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:13,720 He said, you know, if I burn up the clutch, you're not going to be mad. 498 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:16,000 I'm like, nope, not at all. 499 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:20,720 And me and the wife, once again, just like the Frenchman and the wife, we're two wives 500 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:25,000 standing on the corner just laughing and I shouldn't have been laughing, but you know, 501 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:26,000 you can laugh or cry. 502 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:27,280 You got to laugh or cry. 503 00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:33,280 We were on a flight of stairs and we're just sitting there watching these two men in the 504 00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:38,960 car and lo and behold, the guy got the car back on the road. 505 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:39,960 Yes. 506 00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:40,960 He did it. 507 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:43,520 He now it smelled like a burnt toast. 508 00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:45,320 The car was on fire. 509 00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:47,840 The car was on fire. 510 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:51,400 Everything was burning, you know, because he had to get the RPMs up. 511 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:52,400 Yeah. 512 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:58,880 He got, he put it in, he put the E brake on, got the RPMs up, put in reverse, then dropped 513 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:00,520 the E brake and it just rolled. 514 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:02,260 It just rolled back up. 515 00:22:02,260 --> 00:22:05,960 So I wasn't letting the RPMs get up to move it backwards. 516 00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:07,840 So that's what he did. 517 00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:11,440 I watched the entire time because if this happens again, I will be prepared. 518 00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:12,440 That is crazy. 519 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:19,920 But just be aware what I would have, I wish we knew in Rhonda that there could be stairs 520 00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:22,680 and you wouldn't know it. 521 00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:24,480 So drive a caution. 522 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:27,480 What I know about Rhonda is you can't drive on the stairs. 523 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:29,800 Just don't drive on the stairs. 524 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:31,240 Stairs are not meant for cars. 525 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:32,240 No. 526 00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:35,400 I do wonder how those cars got to the bottom of those stairs. 527 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:37,720 Yeah, it had to have been a road. 528 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:42,000 We had to go around somehow, but don't take the stairs. 529 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,560 No, no, no. 530 00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:48,680 So that's when we decide, actually that's when we decide we need a room. 531 00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:49,680 I'm so frustrated. 532 00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:50,680 I don't want to drive. 533 00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:52,000 I want to get out of this car. 534 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:58,440 So that's when we find the hotel and then we find the bridge, the bridge too far. 535 00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:02,960 Which by the way, the bridge is down the street from the bullfighting ring. 536 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:04,240 They're on the same street. 537 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:08,040 Yeah, they're on the same street and the bridge is called the old bridge. 538 00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:14,520 Now mind you, this bridge, like I told you, looks like it came straight out of a Lord 539 00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:17,640 of the Rings movie. 540 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:19,160 The bridge was built when? 541 00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:22,600 I remember because I kept hearing people say the old bridge, the old bridge. 542 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:24,160 And I said, well, how old? 543 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:26,240 No, they said the new bridge, the new bridge. 544 00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:27,240 I'm like, okay. 545 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:29,840 Was it like 1900, 1925? 546 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:34,440 Like 1751. 547 00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:37,040 I said, that doesn't count as a new bridge. 548 00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:38,120 Come home. 549 00:23:38,120 --> 00:23:41,920 This bridge was built in the 1700s. 550 00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:42,920 The new bridge was built in 17. 551 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:43,920 It's the new bridge. 552 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:44,920 1751. 553 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:49,200 So, Don Miguel is right on the bridge. 554 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:51,740 It's the last building. 555 00:23:51,740 --> 00:23:52,740 Before you fall off the cliff. 556 00:23:52,740 --> 00:23:54,120 Before you fall off the cliff into the water. 557 00:23:54,120 --> 00:24:02,480 So you're looking for a nice affordable hotel, Don Miguel, and they have an amazing restaurant 558 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:04,520 in there. 559 00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:05,520 The food was so delicious. 560 00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:09,480 I was a little addicted to the chorizo. 561 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:12,480 They had a good one. 562 00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:14,960 They had a good one. 563 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:16,960 And they had delicious chorizo. 564 00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:20,160 Let's talk about our walk to the bridge to take these Instagram pictures. 565 00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:21,160 What about it? 566 00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:24,280 What you mean what about it? 567 00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:29,440 We took the walk down all these steps, and it was a lot of freaking steps. 568 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:31,960 It was a couple hundred steps. 569 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:34,080 It was way too many. 570 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:39,160 And then we get to take the pictures, and you want to take pictures on the edge of a 571 00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:40,160 cliff. 572 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:41,160 Oh, stop it. 573 00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:43,680 You were on the edge of a cliff talking about, okay, I'm going to fall. 574 00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:47,360 I was like, baby, can you come a little closer? 575 00:24:47,360 --> 00:24:48,880 It looked like I was close to the edge. 576 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:49,880 I was not. 577 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:50,880 I had my child with me. 578 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:51,880 I was going to put her in danger. 579 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:54,600 You were on the edge of a cliff. 580 00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:57,200 You remember the pictures, the platform? 581 00:24:57,200 --> 00:24:58,200 There's nothing there. 582 00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:02,680 It's just like a straight drop, and we had to get a picture of this. 583 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:06,160 I was like, I don't know if I want to take this picture, baby. 584 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:07,160 What if we trip? 585 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:08,840 And we're done for. 586 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:09,840 You went down there, though. 587 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:10,840 I did. 588 00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:11,840 I did go down. 589 00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:12,840 I did take pictures. 590 00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:17,960 We did do all that for the sake of an Instagram photograph. 591 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:20,480 We almost died. 592 00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:23,000 Ask me, have I posted this picture on Instagram? 593 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,680 No, it was for my enjoyment. 594 00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:30,240 Okay, so in our home, we have this wall. 595 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:38,320 When you walk into our house, the first room you have, we have nothing in there but a desk 596 00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:41,600 and a large piano. 597 00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:48,200 And behind the piano is just a wall, almost floor to ceiling of just pictures. 598 00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:51,920 And these are pictures from our trips. 599 00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:56,680 And I just, you know, I was thinking about putting that picture on that wall. 600 00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:58,800 At any cost. 601 00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:00,000 It was not at any cost. 602 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:01,000 It was just beautiful. 603 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:04,800 You know, I just want to remember, you know, beautiful times. 604 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:06,840 It wasn't an easy picture to take, baby. 605 00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:07,840 It was not. 606 00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:08,840 It was not an easy set of pictures to take. 607 00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:09,840 I was questioning myself. 608 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:15,520 When on our walk up those flights of stairs, I was really questioning, like, man, was it 609 00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:16,520 really worth it? 610 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:17,520 Yeah, it was worth it. 611 00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:18,520 It was. 612 00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:19,520 Because that view was stunning. 613 00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:20,520 It was. 614 00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:21,520 And the sun was starting to set. 615 00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:22,520 It was beautiful. 616 00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:24,840 Because you're going up a cliff. 617 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:25,840 Literally going up a cliff. 618 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:27,920 You go down, and you got to come back up that cliff. 619 00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:32,600 Yeah, they have stairs, but it's a workout. 620 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:33,600 Yeah. 621 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:37,480 And like I said, I had on my little Giddy Girl sandals. 622 00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:38,480 I was cute. 623 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:39,480 And a flowy dress. 624 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:40,480 So was. 625 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:41,480 I was cute. 626 00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:44,080 That is not designed for hiking these stairs. 627 00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:45,720 But you like my flowy dress. 628 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:46,720 I did. 629 00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:47,720 Okay, now. 630 00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:48,720 You look good that day. 631 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:49,720 Thank you. 632 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:50,720 You look very good. 633 00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:51,720 You look gorgeous. 634 00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:54,720 And after this workout, you know, we decided to get dinner. 635 00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:55,720 Yeah, it was dinner. 636 00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:56,720 It was kind of late. 637 00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:59,000 Yeah, we had to get something to eat. 638 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:00,000 Yeah. 639 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:06,960 And that's when we went to that, I guess it's on the Cliffside restaurant. 640 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:09,200 I don't remember the name of the restaurant. 641 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:11,320 We don't want to remember the name of the restaurant. 642 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:13,360 Yeah, because that was our first time. 643 00:27:13,360 --> 00:27:16,400 I mind you, we had just taken this hike. 644 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:17,400 We were tired. 645 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:18,400 We were tired. 646 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:20,400 Like we were, we needed water. 647 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:21,400 We were thirsty. 648 00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:22,400 Thirsty. 649 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:26,400 And so when we went in, first thing, first thing. 650 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:32,320 She, I saw that there was a table available outside, you know, they have restaurants have 651 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:33,320 tables outside. 652 00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:34,320 On the porch. 653 00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:35,320 Mm-hmm. 654 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:36,320 And I'm sorry, on the patio. 655 00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:37,320 On the seat. 656 00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:41,880 And then when I asked them, the lady was like, there are no seats outside. 657 00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:43,060 There's none available. 658 00:27:43,060 --> 00:27:44,560 So she had me questioning my Spanish. 659 00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:47,480 I'm like, did I ask her wrong in Spanish? 660 00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:49,640 Because clearly we saw some available seating. 661 00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:50,880 At least three. 662 00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:54,840 No, she put, she brought us in and brought us all the way to the back. 663 00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:55,840 In the corner. 664 00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:56,840 In the corner. 665 00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:57,840 We were in the cut. 666 00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:00,120 But I didn't complain because there was a big view. 667 00:28:00,120 --> 00:28:04,960 We had a nice view of the canyon, of that cliff we just climbed down. 668 00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:07,120 So I was like, I'm not going to complain. 669 00:28:07,120 --> 00:28:09,080 We're going to sit right here. 670 00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:12,660 And there's a gentleman came over, took our order for drinks. 671 00:28:12,660 --> 00:28:15,080 So we got us some drinks. 672 00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:19,400 You know, my favorite, coxina azucar. 673 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:21,120 And Monroe's got the Fanta. 674 00:28:21,120 --> 00:28:22,120 Yeah, orange Fanta. 675 00:28:22,120 --> 00:28:23,120 That was her drink. 676 00:28:23,120 --> 00:28:24,120 Which is like orange juice. 677 00:28:24,120 --> 00:28:25,120 Yeah. 678 00:28:25,120 --> 00:28:26,120 It's not like our Fanta here. 679 00:28:26,120 --> 00:28:27,120 It's different. 680 00:28:27,120 --> 00:28:31,880 But to make a long story short, we were just sitting there, you know, going through our 681 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:34,640 pictures and, you know, talking. 682 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:35,640 Recapping the day. 683 00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:36,640 Yeah, recapping the day. 684 00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:37,640 Laughing. 685 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:38,980 The stairs and everything. 686 00:28:38,980 --> 00:28:45,520 And before we know it, almost an hour creeped up on us and we had not ordered our food. 687 00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:48,320 She hadn't come by or anything. 688 00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:49,320 Yeah. 689 00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:52,760 So the server, the one that told me, you know, no, you can't sit out front, but you can sit 690 00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:56,840 right here in the corner, did not come to take our order. 691 00:28:56,840 --> 00:28:59,280 And so Derek, you want to tell them? 692 00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:00,860 I was watching her the entire time. 693 00:29:00,860 --> 00:29:05,220 So there were couples to the left and there was a couple behind us. 694 00:29:05,220 --> 00:29:07,440 She was serving those guys. 695 00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:12,000 And she had come back, refilled her drinks, brought them their food. 696 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:16,680 And we were just chit chatting, drinking water, sodas, whatever. 697 00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:20,920 Time flew by and I said, hey, she just keeps walking by. 698 00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:22,820 So eventually I just look at her and flag her down. 699 00:29:22,820 --> 00:29:28,800 She looks me right in my face and starts to walk towards us and just keeps on walking 700 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:30,840 to the table beside us and serves them. 701 00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:32,640 I'm like, okay, I got you. 702 00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:33,640 I got you. 703 00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:34,640 You don't want to serve us. 704 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:35,640 That's all right. 705 00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:37,880 And that's when I mentioned to you, I'm not paying for this. 706 00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:38,880 We should just leave. 707 00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:39,880 Yeah. 708 00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:40,880 You were like, I don't want to do that. 709 00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:42,320 I want to do that. 710 00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:44,280 No, we couldn't just walk out. 711 00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:49,200 First of all, she did not serve us our drinks and that would have been 100% stealing. 712 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:54,960 And I ain't trying to get locked up in no foreign country over no soda, over no Coca-Cola 713 00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:56,360 scene I soo car. 714 00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:57,360 Okay. 715 00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:00,400 When you do what she did, that means you don't see us, right? 716 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:05,500 So therefore you're not going to see me walk out. 717 00:30:05,500 --> 00:30:10,940 And then the killing part about it, when we did finally leave, she was on the front, standing 718 00:30:10,940 --> 00:30:14,960 in front of the table that I saw empty, smoking a cigarette. 719 00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:17,680 I was like, okay, girlfriend. 720 00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:20,960 And the guy, well, the guy, I guess he's the bodyguarder. 721 00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:23,160 I don't know what he does, but he stands on the porch. 722 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:25,160 He even spoke and said adios. 723 00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:26,160 Right. 724 00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:28,000 So it was just her. 725 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:33,520 But I don't know why the manager didn't realize, oh, these people are leaving because poor 726 00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:34,520 service. 727 00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:35,520 Yeah. 728 00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:36,520 Discrimination. 729 00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:37,720 I mean, the place was crowded, but you know what? 730 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:38,720 I'm actually glad- 731 00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:40,960 It was crowded, but everyone else got their food, everyone around us. 732 00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:41,960 But guess what? 733 00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:42,960 Guess what I'm not going to do? 734 00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:46,480 I'm not going to cry about that because I'd rather her ignore us than to get our food and 735 00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:47,480 play in it. 736 00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:48,480 Yeah. 737 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:49,480 So she did me a favor. 738 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:55,120 But she actually did us a favor because that's when we walked back to our hotel and realized, 739 00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:56,120 oh, we forgot. 740 00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:58,000 They have a restaurant right here. 741 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:03,480 And not only was that restaurant better, it had a better view. 742 00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:10,880 Like I said, right on the canal, we saw we had the beautiful bridge to our backside. 743 00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:12,960 It was just, it was very romantic. 744 00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:13,960 Was it? 745 00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:14,960 Yes, it was. 746 00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:16,720 And you could see the countryside from where we were. 747 00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:18,600 You could just see for miles. 748 00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:25,040 And then on that bridge, like I said, horse and buggy, and they legit had horse and buggy, 749 00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:26,640 and the horse had bells on them. 750 00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:29,840 And it was just such a magical- 751 00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:30,840 It was relaxing. 752 00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:32,200 It was very relaxing. 753 00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:34,040 The food was top tier. 754 00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:36,840 So the Don Miguel restaurant, you guys, you got to eat there. 755 00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:38,560 If you stay there, eat there. 756 00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:43,880 And then sit there at sunset when the lights come on and you have the Illuminari. 757 00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:46,000 It's just so beautiful. 758 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:48,880 And the waiters, excellent. 759 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:49,880 First class. 760 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:50,880 First class. 761 00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:51,880 First class. 762 00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:55,200 I believe the waiter was trying to hit on you talking about how good your Spanish was. 763 00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:57,200 I'm impressed with your Spanish. 764 00:31:57,200 --> 00:31:58,200 Espanol. 765 00:31:58,200 --> 00:31:59,200 Stop hating me. 766 00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:00,200 I was like, hold up, bro. 767 00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:01,200 Cut it out. 768 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:02,200 I heard you. 769 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:04,200 I can understand a little bit. 770 00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:05,960 You're trying to hit on my wife. 771 00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:06,960 What's wrong with you? 772 00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:07,960 You're so silly. 773 00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:12,960 And that's when we got, and they had good sangria too. 774 00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:17,040 Yes, Derrick has a thing that wherever we go, he has to get sangria. 775 00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:18,040 In Spain. 776 00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:20,560 I'm comparing sangrias. 777 00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:23,120 The best sangria I ever had was in Portugal. 778 00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:24,120 No. 779 00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:25,120 That's my opinion. 780 00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:26,120 It's in Corboda. 781 00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:27,120 Corboda. 782 00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:28,120 Corboda. 783 00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:29,120 Okay. 784 00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:30,120 Whatever. 785 00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:32,120 That's your opinion. 786 00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:33,400 Yep. 787 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:42,520 So after dinner, it's time to wind down because we have a quote unquote dangerous walk tomorrow. 788 00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:44,120 We're going on another hike. 789 00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:45,120 Yes. 790 00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:48,160 Caminito del Rey, which is the reason why we stayed in Corboda. 791 00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:49,920 I mean in Ronda. 792 00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:50,920 Ronda. 793 00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:51,920 Yeah. 794 00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:55,920 Because the Caminito del Rey was like a 40 minute drive away. 795 00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:56,920 Right outside of Ronda. 796 00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:57,920 Yep. 797 00:32:57,920 --> 00:32:58,920 Yep. 798 00:32:58,920 --> 00:32:59,920 From our hotel. 799 00:32:59,920 --> 00:33:04,240 So we had to go ahead and turn in because we needed to get up around five in the morning. 800 00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:05,240 We needed to turn in. 801 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:08,120 We needed to pray. 802 00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:14,440 To make this ride because the gate's open for us, was it 7am, 8am? 803 00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:19,920 I think our tickets were for 8.15. 804 00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:23,480 But we got up early because we thought we were going to eat breakfast, but nothing was 805 00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:24,480 open. 806 00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:25,480 Nothing in Ronda was open. 807 00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:27,560 So you got to keep that in mind. 808 00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:34,460 So and then we figured, I know I assumed on the way there we can stop. 809 00:33:34,460 --> 00:33:35,460 Nothing was open. 810 00:33:35,460 --> 00:33:41,000 And then I assumed once again poorly that when we got there, the restaurant would be 811 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:42,160 open with a little shop. 812 00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:45,040 The shop was open, but it didn't serve nothing but drinks. 813 00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:46,040 Yeah. 814 00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:49,720 So one thing you want to keep in mind, if you're driving in Spain, if you were in a 815 00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:56,640 car, you know when you're driving in the States, we normally have like gas stations here or 816 00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:57,640 like a Buc-ee's. 817 00:33:57,640 --> 00:33:58,640 Right. 818 00:33:58,640 --> 00:33:59,640 A rest stop. 819 00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:00,640 Rest stop. 820 00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:01,700 There's no, you're right. 821 00:34:01,700 --> 00:34:03,400 We never came across a rest stop. 822 00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:04,400 Not a one. 823 00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:05,400 There was none. 824 00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:06,400 Not a one. 825 00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:07,400 In Andalucía. 826 00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:09,920 However, the countryside views, beautiful. 827 00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:10,920 Beautiful. 828 00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:15,440 Especially when you pass those Pueblos Blancos in the morning with the sun rising. 829 00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:21,480 Oh, you're talking about my sunrise experience was just amazing. 830 00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:25,960 And that's when you wanted me to slow down and take pictures of these windmills. 831 00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:27,720 These windmills up against the mountains. 832 00:34:27,720 --> 00:34:28,720 It was beautiful. 833 00:34:28,720 --> 00:34:29,720 It was beautiful. 834 00:34:29,720 --> 00:34:30,720 I will give you that. 835 00:34:30,720 --> 00:34:31,720 It was beautiful. 836 00:34:31,720 --> 00:34:33,720 You're trying to hang out in the car like, Makala, what are you doing? 837 00:34:33,720 --> 00:34:34,720 You were driving too fast. 838 00:34:34,720 --> 00:34:37,720 Why do you want to hang out in the car? 839 00:34:37,720 --> 00:34:38,720 Hey, anything? 840 00:34:38,720 --> 00:34:39,720 It's not worth it. 841 00:34:39,720 --> 00:34:40,720 I love pictures. 842 00:34:40,720 --> 00:34:41,720 It's not worth it. 843 00:34:41,720 --> 00:34:42,720 I love pictures. 844 00:34:42,720 --> 00:34:43,720 She like, slow down. 845 00:34:43,720 --> 00:34:46,360 I'm like, there's a line of cars behind us. 846 00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:47,360 There was no cars behind us. 847 00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:48,360 They're going to run us off the road. 848 00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:49,520 There was no cars behind us. 849 00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:50,520 I have video. 850 00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:51,520 Okay. 851 00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:54,800 I have video proof. 852 00:34:54,800 --> 00:35:00,240 So that is the road to Ronda. 853 00:35:00,240 --> 00:35:05,320 We're winding down and we're going to head to where we're headed on the next day. 854 00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:07,840 Caminito del Rey. 855 00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:12,560 So we got to rest up because we got a long hike in front of us, another long hike in 856 00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:17,400 front of us, an amazing hike in front of us, awesome hike. 857 00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:24,820 So until next time, we'll talk to y'all later. 858 00:35:24,820 --> 00:35:28,280 If you made it this far, you are the true champion. 859 00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:32,600 You could have been anywhere, doing anything, but you instead chose to spend your time with 860 00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:33,600 us. 861 00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:35,880 And for that, we say thank you. 862 00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:36,880 I'm Derek. 863 00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:37,880 I'm Akilah. 864 00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:40,160 Rate, like, and subscribe. 865 00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:42,840 Do good, be good. 866 00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:58,480 Until next time.