At The House Day 23 - Driving, driving, driving

Up late and up early.  A little after 6am Mike and I were at Danny Aiello's drinking the final tall cafe con leche.  The loaded car was half a block away in what I realized was a handicap parking spot as we got out.

The next 8 plus hours was me driving to MAD T1 and back.  We only stopped for gas and a coffee and donut.  Good glazed donut, yummy.  The passenger drop off at T1 doesn't really seem to exist.  I pulled into a painted red parking space in front of a police car and kicked Mike and his bike bag out of the car and drove off as quickly as possible.  Not sure if that's what those spaces are for or I broke some rules.

With about 2 hours still to go I pulled into a freeway rest stop and had some lunch.  It was a decent place of lomo,  fried egg and salad.  Bread and coffee all for 12.50€.  Some places, particularly freeway places use the pay machine and the bar/restaurant people never touch the money.  The bartender entered my order on a terminal and I then feed money into the machine.

My brother John and Angie were in Malaga and were heading to Alcalá la Real.  We were both about the same distance away but I had to do some cleaning and room swapping.  

When they arrived they wanted to street park and I found a pretty reliable looking place a few streets above mine.  I noticed there seemed to be more spots than houses and even though a steep hike up was on a flat reasonably wide street.

After getting settled we needed to dry a sheet for their bed so we went to the Laundromat to use the drier.  I also needed to pick up my bike but first beer and tapas.  We went to Tipi Tapa were you get a choice of tapas.  Two beers, a glass of wine and three substantial tapas ... Angie guessed 20€ ... no, not here: 8€.  And no tip and no tax.

We continued to the bike shop where Nono had replaced my chain, handlebar tape and break pads.  Bike looked good ... 90€.  I also got a 2026 calendar.

Just as we were heading to bed Alpha returned from Cordoba.  He leaves in the morning and I will drive him to Lucena were he catches the bus to Malaga.  That saves him a transfer in Granada and about an hour.