What's up y'all?
Thanks for joining the Travel Tales and Talk podcast with Derek and Makayla.
I'm Derek.
I'm Makayla.
Thanks for listening and enjoy the show.
The road to Rwanda.
So let's start out by asking the question, why Rwanda?
Oh, because there was a beautiful bridge that I saw all over social media and you know how
I am.
I gotta see it in person.
I see it online.
I gotta see it in person.
So we're going to Rwanda for Instagram pictures.
Wow.
Don't do me.
But I will say this, great photographs, great photographic opportunities.
It was a breathtaking view.
And Rwanda was also an overnight stop for us to our next destination.
So it was like the middle point, staging area, so to speak, for our next endeavor on this
trip.
Yes.
What are some things that you wish you would have known before you arrived?
Things I would have wished I knew before we arrived.
I would have liked to have known the exact location of how to, like the address of how
to get to the parking place.
The exact coordinates.
Yes.
And to see the bridge, because the bridge, it literally looks like something off of Lord
of the Rings.
It's...
Wasn't that location a part of Game of Thrones?
Game of Thrones?
Yes.
There was places in there that film for that.
Okay.
I wasn't sure.
So the bridge is massive.
It's like the bridge over the canal.
But we couldn't figure, like we asked two people and they both gave us directions.
And they both are wrong.
They both did not take us to the parking spot at the bottom of the canal.
So we had to end up walking it.
And the GPS would lead us astray.
Yes.
The GPS wouldn't even take us there.
So with us walking from the top of the bridge, like on top of the bridge, down to the bottom
of the canal, whew.
Man.
What a step.
What a walk.
It was a lot.
It was a lot of stairs.
It was a hike.
It was a legit hike.
I wasn't prepared.
I had on sandals, a long flowy dress.
Because you had to take those Instagram pictures.
Because you know I had to have.
Hey, don't do me.
You love them pictures too, so don't play.
But I would have-
Give you the pictures.
I would have, I should have worn support tennis shoes or hiking boots.
I should have brought water.
And-
We should have had a bag with those materials.
You wear your hiking shoes down so you can change into your Instagram shoes.
Oh my goodness.
No, seriously.
Seriously.
We were not prepared for that.
But we're not prepared.
Because it was a legit hike to the bottom.
And what's crazy, that view is so beautiful that it, you know how when you're just like
on a computer or on your TV screen and like-
Screensaver shows up.
Screensaver show up.
The actual picture that, you know of that bridge showed up on one of our screensavers
on the TV.
And I asked Derek, say hey how did you get our picture on the TV?
It's like I didn't take that picture.
No, that's a screensaver.
It was built into the TV.
It was built, I was like wow.
I took the exact same picture of that bridge that was in the screensaver.
So hey, it was worth it.
It was worth it.
And I had to stop now.
You know of course going down the stairs is easier than climbing up.
So I- Proper shoes can go a long way.
I think we had to take maybe four legit stops for me to catch my breath.
Yeah, it was a lot.
I would have changed my workout.
Yeah, you do need to get, you gotta be in shape.
I would have did more of the stair master prior to Rhonda.
It's a lot of stairs.
I thought we were gonna park and someone would take it like a golf cart to this location.
This is on your own, totally on your own if you wanna take this picture or see this site.
Bring water.
I don't think we brought water.
No, I definitely didn't.
We were totally not prepared.
I had on a t-shirt and a flowy skirt.
I was cute.
Don't play.
You were cute.
But yeah, I paid for it in the end.
Yes, you did.
So some regrets that I have about Rhonda, well, not really going to Rhonda was not a
regret but not getting there sooner, not spending enough time.
I underestimated the things to do in Rhonda.
So we showed up.
The beauty of Rhonda.
Yeah, it was beautiful.
And we showed up around four, didn't have a plan, literally had no place to stay.
No plan, no hotel.
You know how we do.
No hotels.
We do have a plan but we never have a hotel.
Never had a hotel.
So we showed up and I had did my research before we got there and I said, hey, this
YouTuber said try this hotel over here.
So we drove into the parking lot.
I'm thinking, oh, we about to get a room wrong.
They were like, we're booked up.
I'm like, booked up.
What's going on in Rhonda?
What is going on?
Because everyone on YouTube says Rhonda is one of those places that people come in for
day trips and then they leave.
Then they leave.
They don't typically stay overnight.
So I wasn't expecting to be turned away.
Yeah, turned away.
And then we found another hotel that was literally right off of that bridge.
It was built on the cliff.
It was on the side of a cliff.
Don Miguel.
The Don Miguel Hotel.
Don Miguel and the guy, he was so sweet.
We checked in.
He had a room available.
Now mind you, it was that question, how many is in that room?
Yep.
He was like, how old is your child?
Right.
And we had to get a whole bed for her.
So we had.
There's no getting around that.
They do not play about that accuracy.
Nope.
Basically, we're going to bill you as three adults.
Yep.
But he was sweet.
Rhonda's a really small city.
So there's not very many places to park.
The streets are extremely narrow.
They are tiny.
They're really tiny.
The streets are about as wide as a staircase.
Because it was built for horse and buggy.
Yes.
That is exactly.
Horse and buggy.
So that'll give you an idea of how narrow these streets are.
Just imagine a carriage coming through.
That's how wide.
So the guy parked our car for us.
We didn't know where.
We didn't know where he put this car to the next day.
And crazy part about it, when we go try to find the car, I was like, I have no idea what
this car looks like.
Oh, because we hit the rental car.
We had the rental car.
And then I forgot the keys at the front desk.
I'm like, I don't know what this car looks like.
I totally forgot.
I'm like, is it a Chevy?
Is it a Volkswagen?
What kind of car is this?
So another regret that I have is that we did not go see the bullfighting ring in Rhonda.
Partly because we got there so late.
Yeah, we got there so late.
It was only open maybe 30, 40 minutes before it closed when we got there.
And we thought, oh, we'll just come back to that, not realizing that you're talking about
the oldest bullfighting ring, not just in Spain, but in the world.
The first bullfighting ring ever.
And it was beautiful from the outside, you guys.
Beautiful.
It was actually...
It's well maintained.
It's well maintained, but it actually appeared in one of the episodes of Game of Thrones.
It was the episode when Daenerys was in the bullfighting ring and her dragon flew in.
Well, it wasn't considered a bullfighting ring then, but she was in a ring and her dragon
flew in and kind of blew the fire and protected all of them.
What season was that?
I don't know.
Nevermind, because I've never watched Game of Thrones.
Maybe season three or four.
I need to watch Game of Thrones.
Because the dragon wasn't full size, but it was pretty big.
She could ride it then.
We missed out on the underground staircase.
I know you mentioned something about that, where the Spanish came in and hijacked the
Moors from underground.
Yes, but I wanted to go back to the bullfighting ring real quick.
Before we leave the bullfighting ring, I mentioned before that it was the first bullfighting
ring in the world.
But it kind of got that title on a technicality because the bullfighting ring in Seville,
Spain, they actually started building that one first.
But because Rhonda finished theirs first and had their first corrida, which is the bullfight,
they got the title of the first, the oldest or whatnot.
Yeah, that is a technicality.
And I wish we had a wint to the Reiserva Tauro, I'm not saying that right.
But it's basically the place where they breed the bulls and the Andalusian horses.
You guys?
That's in Rhonda?
Yes.
It was less, it was about three miles away.
Wow.
Because when we were there, I mentioned it to Derek, it's like, hey, I want to go to
this farm because they let you have like a little makeshift bullfighting lesson.
That is in Rhonda.
Yeah, it was in Rhonda.
And I could not find it.
Like I was going through my phone, like where did I see this information?
Could not find it.
And we ended up missing out because I wanted to see the Andalusian horses too, because
the horses are beautiful.
I just heard that on my Duolingo.
I listened to a podcast, Duolingo, and they just talked about that.
And I was like, how did I overlook that?
Yeah, it was, yes.
And I think it was only seven euros or something.
It was very inexpensive.
Yeah, very inexpensive.
And you get to see the bulls that they raise.
Yep, the bulls they raise, the horses too.
Yep.
Oh.
Less than three miles away.
So we definitely.
We dropped the ball.
We did.
Oh.
We dropped the ball on that one.
Yeah, we played around Rhonda.
So much so.
Yes.
So much so.
We're going to come back to... You want to tell them how we...
What?
About you, you driving around Rhonda?
Not yet.
Driving around Rhonda was frustrating.
It got my pressure up, as grandma would say.
You couldn't tell me we weren't 007 agents up in Rhonda.
Man, those streets are so tiny and compact.
And GPS is 50-50 with Rhonda.
It's like, maybe this is a street, maybe it's not.
Roll the dice.
So be careful.
But back to what you were saying about the underground staircases.
You want to tell us a little bit about that?
No.
Because I saw a different... When I was doing my research about the staircase, I got different
information.
You were telling me that the Spanish came in through that staircase to invade the city,
and I got something totally different.
Okay.
Well, tell me what you got.
Well, I got that the staircase just takes you down to see the river.
Yes.
And it didn't mention anything about an invasion from the Spanish to take over.
Maybe I went to a bad site.
I don't know.
Maybe.
Look, don't quote me on it, but all I do remember is that somebody came in through the river,
and they used those stairs to come up and take over the town.
Right.
That's how they got in.
Yeah.
Ferdinand, it's under Ferdinand and Isabella.
Yeah.
Well, we'll have to circle back down.
The same king and queen that financed Columbus's voyage to where we live in the United States.
To the New World.
To the Americas, right?
To the Americas.
Well, Columbus didn't come up here.
No.
South America.
He was Caribbean.
Caribbean.
Ooh.
We got to do our research, y'all.
Apologies.
We have to do more of it.
There's a lot of information out there.
A lot of information.
You got to figure out what's true, what's not, what's hearsay, what's fact.
Yes, but I do know that they came in on the water and they used those staircases to come
up.
Yeah.
Because Rhonda is built into a cliff.
Yeah.
Yeah, cliffside, that's where we stayed.
Yes, because our hotel, Don Miguel, why I love it so much is we were literally on a
cliff.
We had big, huge- Windows.
Windows that you can sit in, little bay windows.
They were kind enough to put bars on them because we were hanging over-
The cliff.
Yeah, the cliff.
We were hanging over the canyon.
Like water flowed underneath us.
We could hear it.
Yeah, it was so beautiful that night we slept with those windows open and just listened
to the rushing water.
Yeah.
No intruders were going to climb up, so we were good.
Look, if they climbed up that cliff, they deserved to get in.
They can take us.
Yes.
They can take us.
We're on the road to Rhonda.
We're coming from Corboda to get to Rhonda and then we come across our infamous European
signs, street signs, and we saw 120 miles per hour.
Wrong.
It's not 120 miles per hour, 100 kilometers.
Kilometers per hour.
Which is about 73, 74- I thought I was going to be able to do 120.
I was like, ooh, I'm going to smoke these tires.
I was wrong.
Glad I didn't because I did not want that speeding ticket.
We cannot stress enough that please, if you're going to drive in a foreign country, you got
to study those traffic laws and their signs.
Pull up their signage.
Yeah, pull it up.
So important.
Because they're not- once again, they're on the metric system and we're on the imperial
system here in the States, so that'll get you because on the interstate to Sevilla,
I saw what, 90.
I was like, oh, that's not 90 miles per hour.
I had to keep reminding myself it's not miles per hour.
No.
Because you know how some cars will have both?
I know our cars in the States are not even- I know the rental cars here will have kilometers
and miles.
They're on the same, but I don't think there were any in Spain.
It wasn't.
It was all-
It was not both.
In KM.
We had to Google it.
So, 120 is 73, 74 miles per hour.
So be aware.
That's a call out there.
And on this road to Ronda, Makala's driving, following GPS once again, and we make a wrong
turn down a one way.
And that's where we come across our friend.
Oh, okay.
So like we mentioned in a previous episode, they have these Pueblos Blancos, like these
white towns.
And we come through one.
And they're white towns because all the buildings are white.
And they're painted white because it gets so hot down there that white is a cool color.
So the cars are white, the building is white, everything's white, okay?
And it's beautiful, beautiful from the road.
But anyway, I'm driving, my GPS is telling me to go this way.
And then this guy pulls over and he's like-
This is after you make the wrong turn down a one way.
I made a wrong turn because I was about to go head on to him.
I think he said-
That's how he knew.
Hey, they're lost, they have no idea where they're going.
He says, let me help you, where are you going?
And I said, to Ronda, he says, okay, follow me.
Now, all this is in Spanish, right?
Keep in mind, he said, follow me.
He said it, he said it.
See, he got me, right?
Follow me, follow me.
And man, I turn, I start following him, but then my GPS tells me to turn left.
He's going straight.
And I was like, I'm gonna turn left because he might be leading us to our death.
I don't know.
So I turn and the next thing I know, I'm going down the street and this man cuts us off.
He was like, follow me.
I said, follow me.
And I was like, you know what, because at that time we did hit a wrong turn.
No.
GPS was trying to turn us.
They were doing construction in the town.
That road was blocked, so we couldn't go that way.
And he knew that.
Right.
And see, and then the constructions did not show up on GPS.
So after that, I said, let me follow this man.
And the man legit got us out of the town.
And when he got to the last turn, he pulled over to the gas station and said, this is
it.
You just keep going and you make it to Ronda.
Keep straight.
You know, follow way.
I was like, wow, thank you.
This man cut us off.
No, I said, follow me.
He sure did.
I felt like the five was pulling us over.
We needed a ticket.
He, I mean, he was like, if I hadn't slammed on my brakes, we would have hit this man.
He was serious about helping us.
This man cut us off.
He sure did.
He said, no, he sure did.
He got us real good.
So then we, we get to Ronda and I'm following this GPS and it would get down one of the
really narrow streets.
And I was like, okay, Derek, GPS is turned right here to the right.
And Derek was like, are you sure?
I was like, yeah, I'm positive.
And Derek was like, are you sure?
I was like, yes, look at the screen.
It says turn right here.
And so we turn and the car goes, it goes, it goes.
And then I look, and we are on a flight of stairs.
Derek has pulled the car on a flight of stairs.
And he was like, at that time we were only down like the first three steps.
Ooh, that's still too many steps to be down.
And then he tries to reverse it.
And every time he throws a car into reverse, we go down more steps.
By the time he finally just quit, we were almost to the bottom of this flight of stairs.
We're not that far down.
What's crazy is that the flight of stairs is in between like two streets.
It was very odd because at the bottom of the stairs, there were cars parked.
No, at the bottom of the stairs, there's a road.
Yeah, it's like that road butts up to these stairs and there was cars parked right there.
Which is part of the reason why I turned because I saw the cars.
So I assumed- It was just like another hill.
Just a hill.
Because like I said, Rhonda is built on a cliff.
It's built on a mountain.
It's a hill.
So all the roads are very hilly.
So we were elevated and when you look to that right, we just saw cars at the bottom.
We thought it was just another road.
We didn't realize it was a flight of stairs.
So there was no barricade at the top of these stairs nor the bottom.
No crazy European signage or nothing.
Nothing.
And so Derek is just sitting there.
He's yelling, hitting the steering wheel.
Oh, I'm telling on you.
He had a complete meltdown.
I had a meltdown because I thought I had just bought a rental car.
I just figured like, you know what?
We're going to tear this car up so much that they're going to make us buy this rental car.
I just knew he was going to burn up the clutch.
And then the killing part about it- The locals.
There were locals just walk past us, mean mugging us.
Mean mugging like you stupid foreigners.
Yes.
And then there was this couple that we saw them before we made that right turn.
We saw this couple coming up the street.
And when they saw us go down the flight of stairs, they just stood-
Stopped.
They just stopped at the top of the stairs and just watched us.
I feel like if the woman had a box of popcorn, she would have been eating it, watching us.
I was waiting for them to pull out the camera.
I'm like, they're going to record this.
This is going to be all over social media.
That turned my intensity up too.
I'm like, oh, I'm going to go viral.
I was embarrassed.
My man in here screaming like a child, London Rose in the backseat, like what is going on?
And I don't know if you asked for help or what.
No, I asked for help.
I got outside and I said, look, we don't really drive stick ships in America.
Does he speak English?
Did the guy speak English?
Yeah, he spoke English.
Okay.
He spoke English.
I said, we don't really drive stick ships in America.
I can drive it.
I can't figure this out.
Can you help me?
He's like, yeah, I can help you.
He said, you know, if I burn up the clutch, you're not going to be mad.
I'm like, nope, not at all.
And me and the wife, once again, just like the Frenchman and the wife, we're two wives
standing on the corner just laughing and I shouldn't have been laughing, but you know,
you can laugh or cry.
You got to laugh or cry.
We were on a flight of stairs and we're just sitting there watching these two men in the
car and lo and behold, the guy got the car back on the road.
Yes.
He did it.
He now it smelled like a burnt toast.
The car was on fire.
Everything was burning, you know, because he had to get the RPMs up.
Yeah.
He got, he put it in, he put the E brake on, got the RPMs up, put in reverse, then dropped
the E brake and it just rolled.
It just rolled back up.
So I wasn't letting the RPMs get up to move it backwards.
So that's what he did.
I watched the entire time because if this happens again, I will be prepared.
That is crazy.
But just be aware what I would have, I wish we knew in Rhonda that there could be stairs
and you wouldn't know it.
So drive a caution.
What I know about Rhonda is you can't drive on the stairs.
Just don't drive on the stairs.
Stairs are not meant for cars.
No.
I do wonder how those cars got to the bottom of those stairs.
Yeah, it had to have been a road.
We had to go around somehow, but don't take the stairs.
No, no, no.
So that's when we decide, actually that's when we decide we need a room.
I'm so frustrated.
I don't want to drive.
I want to get out of this car.
So that's when we find the hotel and then we find the bridge, the bridge too far.
Which by the way, the bridge is down the street from the bullfighting ring.
They're on the same street.
Yeah, they're on the same street and the bridge is called the old bridge.
Now mind you, this bridge, like I told you, looks like it came straight out of a Lord
of the Rings movie.
The bridge was built when?
I remember because I kept hearing people say the old bridge, the old bridge.
And I said, well, how old?
No, they said the new bridge, the new bridge.
I'm like, okay.
Was it like 1900, 1925?
Like 1751.
I said, that doesn't count as a new bridge.
Come home.
This bridge was built in the 1700s.
The new bridge was built in 17.
It's the new bridge.
1751.
So, Don Miguel is right on the bridge.
It's the last building.
Before you fall off the cliff.
Before you fall off the cliff into the water.
So you're looking for a nice affordable hotel, Don Miguel, and they have an amazing restaurant
in there.
The food was so delicious.
I was a little addicted to the chorizo.
They had a good one.
And they had delicious chorizo.
Let's talk about our walk to the bridge to take these Instagram pictures.
What about it?
What you mean what about it?
We took the walk down all these steps, and it was a lot of freaking steps.
It was a couple hundred steps.
It was way too many.
And then we get to take the pictures, and you want to take pictures on the edge of a
cliff.
Oh, stop it.
You were on the edge of a cliff talking about, okay, I'm going to fall.
I was like, baby, can you come a little closer?
It looked like I was close to the edge.
I was not.
I had my child with me.
I was going to put her in danger.
You were on the edge of a cliff.
You remember the pictures, the platform?
There's nothing there.
It's just like a straight drop, and we had to get a picture of this.
I was like, I don't know if I want to take this picture, baby.
What if we trip?
And we're done for.
You went down there, though.
I did.
I did go down.
I did take pictures.
We did do all that for the sake of an Instagram photograph.
We almost died.
Ask me, have I posted this picture on Instagram?
No, it was for my enjoyment.
Okay, so in our home, we have this wall.
When you walk into our house, the first room you have, we have nothing in there but a desk
and a large piano.
And behind the piano is just a wall, almost floor to ceiling of just pictures.
And these are pictures from our trips.
And I just, you know, I was thinking about putting that picture on that wall.
At any cost.
It was not at any cost.
It was just beautiful.
You know, I just want to remember, you know, beautiful times.
It wasn't an easy picture to take, baby.
It was not.
It was not an easy set of pictures to take.
I was questioning myself.
When on our walk up those flights of stairs, I was really questioning, like, man, was it
really worth it?
Yeah, it was worth it.
It was.
Because that view was stunning.
It was.
And the sun was starting to set.
It was beautiful.
Because you're going up a cliff.
Literally going up a cliff.
You go down, and you got to come back up that cliff.
Yeah, they have stairs, but it's a workout.
Yeah.
And like I said, I had on my little Giddy Girl sandals.
I was cute.
And a flowy dress.
So was.
I was cute.
That is not designed for hiking these stairs.
But you like my flowy dress.
I did.
Okay, now.
You look good that day.
Thank you.
You look very good.
You look gorgeous.
And after this workout, you know, we decided to get dinner.
Yeah, it was dinner.
It was kind of late.
Yeah, we had to get something to eat.
Yeah.
And that's when we went to that, I guess it's on the Cliffside restaurant.
I don't remember the name of the restaurant.
We don't want to remember the name of the restaurant.
Yeah, because that was our first time.
I mind you, we had just taken this hike.
We were tired.
Like we were, we needed water.
We were thirsty.
Thirsty.
And so when we went in, first thing, first thing.
She, I saw that there was a table available outside, you know, they have restaurants have
tables outside.
On the porch.
Mm-hmm.
And I'm sorry, on the patio.
On the seat.
And then when I asked them, the lady was like, there are no seats outside.
There's none available.
So she had me questioning my Spanish.
I'm like, did I ask her wrong in Spanish?
Because clearly we saw some available seating.
At least three.
No, she put, she brought us in and brought us all the way to the back.
In the corner.
We were in the cut.
But I didn't complain because there was a big view.
We had a nice view of the canyon, of that cliff we just climbed down.
So I was like, I'm not going to complain.
We're going to sit right here.
And there's a gentleman came over, took our order for drinks.
So we got us some drinks.
You know, my favorite, coxina azucar.
And Monroe's got the Fanta.
Yeah, orange Fanta.
That was her drink.
Which is like orange juice.
Yeah.
It's not like our Fanta here.
It's different.
But to make a long story short, we were just sitting there, you know, going through our
pictures and, you know, talking.
Recapping the day.
Yeah, recapping the day.
Laughing.
The stairs and everything.
And before we know it, almost an hour creeped up on us and we had not ordered our food.
She hadn't come by or anything.
Yeah.
So the server, the one that told me, you know, no, you can't sit out front, but you can sit
right here in the corner, did not come to take our order.
And so Derek, you want to tell them?
I was watching her the entire time.
So there were couples to the left and there was a couple behind us.
She was serving those guys.
And she had come back, refilled her drinks, brought them their food.
And we were just chit chatting, drinking water, sodas, whatever.
Time flew by and I said, hey, she just keeps walking by.
So eventually I just look at her and flag her down.
She looks me right in my face and starts to walk towards us and just keeps on walking
to the table beside us and serves them.
I'm like, okay, I got you.
I got you.
You don't want to serve us.
That's all right.
And that's when I mentioned to you, I'm not paying for this.
We should just leave.
Yeah.
You were like, I don't want to do that.
I want to do that.
No, we couldn't just walk out.
First of all, she did not serve us our drinks and that would have been 100% stealing.
And I ain't trying to get locked up in no foreign country over no soda, over no Coca-Cola
scene I soo car.
Okay.
When you do what she did, that means you don't see us, right?
So therefore you're not going to see me walk out.
And then the killing part about it, when we did finally leave, she was on the front, standing
in front of the table that I saw empty, smoking a cigarette.
I was like, okay, girlfriend.
And the guy, well, the guy, I guess he's the bodyguarder.
I don't know what he does, but he stands on the porch.
He even spoke and said adios.
Right.
So it was just her.
But I don't know why the manager didn't realize, oh, these people are leaving because poor
service.
Yeah.
Discrimination.
I mean, the place was crowded, but you know what?
I'm actually glad-
It was crowded, but everyone else got their food, everyone around us.
But guess what?
Guess what I'm not going to do?
I'm not going to cry about that because I'd rather her ignore us than to get our food and
play in it.
Yeah.
So she did me a favor.
But she actually did us a favor because that's when we walked back to our hotel and realized,
oh, we forgot.
They have a restaurant right here.
And not only was that restaurant better, it had a better view.
Like I said, right on the canal, we saw we had the beautiful bridge to our backside.
It was just, it was very romantic.
Was it?
Yes, it was.
And you could see the countryside from where we were.
You could just see for miles.
And then on that bridge, like I said, horse and buggy, and they legit had horse and buggy,
and the horse had bells on them.
And it was just such a magical-
It was relaxing.
It was very relaxing.
The food was top tier.
So the Don Miguel restaurant, you guys, you got to eat there.
If you stay there, eat there.
And then sit there at sunset when the lights come on and you have the Illuminari.
It's just so beautiful.
And the waiters, excellent.
First class.
I believe the waiter was trying to hit on you talking about how good your Spanish was.
I'm impressed with your Spanish.
Espanol.
Stop hating me.
I was like, hold up, bro.
Cut it out.
I heard you.
I can understand a little bit.
You're trying to hit on my wife.
What's wrong with you?
You're so silly.
And that's when we got, and they had good sangria too.
Yes, Derrick has a thing that wherever we go, he has to get sangria.
In Spain.
I'm comparing sangrias.
The best sangria I ever had was in Portugal.
No.
That's my opinion.
It's in Corboda.
Corboda.
Okay.
Whatever.
That's your opinion.
Yep.
So after dinner, it's time to wind down because we have a quote unquote dangerous walk tomorrow.
We're going on another hike.
Yes.
Caminito del Rey, which is the reason why we stayed in Corboda.
I mean in Ronda.
Ronda.
Yeah.
Because the Caminito del Rey was like a 40 minute drive away.
Right outside of Ronda.
Yep.
From our hotel.
So we had to go ahead and turn in because we needed to get up around five in the morning.
We needed to turn in.
We needed to pray.
To make this ride because the gate's open for us, was it 7am, 8am?
I think our tickets were for 8.15.
But we got up early because we thought we were going to eat breakfast, but nothing was
open.
Nothing in Ronda was open.
So you got to keep that in mind.
So and then we figured, I know I assumed on the way there we can stop.
Nothing was open.
And then I assumed once again poorly that when we got there, the restaurant would be
open with a little shop.
The shop was open, but it didn't serve nothing but drinks.
Yeah.
So one thing you want to keep in mind, if you're driving in Spain, if you were in a
car, you know when you're driving in the States, we normally have like gas stations here or
like a Buc-ee's.
Right.
A rest stop.
Rest stop.
There's no, you're right.
We never came across a rest stop.
Not a one.
There was none.
Not a one.
In Andalucía.
However, the countryside views, beautiful.
Beautiful.
Especially when you pass those Pueblos Blancos in the morning with the sun rising.
Oh, you're talking about my sunrise experience was just amazing.
And that's when you wanted me to slow down and take pictures of these windmills.
These windmills up against the mountains.
It was beautiful.
I will give you that.
It was beautiful.
You're trying to hang out in the car like, Makala, what are you doing?
You were driving too fast.
Why do you want to hang out in the car?
Hey, anything?
It's not worth it.
I love pictures.
It's not worth it.
I love pictures.
She like, slow down.
I'm like, there's a line of cars behind us.
There was no cars behind us.
They're going to run us off the road.
There was no cars behind us.
I have video.
Okay.
I have video proof.
So that is the road to Ronda.
We're winding down and we're going to head to where we're headed on the next day.
Caminito del Rey.
So we got to rest up because we got a long hike in front of us, another long hike in
front of us, an amazing hike in front of us, awesome hike.
So until next time, we'll talk to y'all later.
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