12 of May:

Carcassonne

We spent another week around Fontes, waiting for our motorhome insurance papers to arrive. Took the opportunity to visit Carcassonne- a medieval village with just a great castle and an incredible little town which is part of the Santiago de Compostela walk- Saint-Guilhem-Le-Desert....a "must"

I have to say that France so far has been an unexpected great surprise. Wherever we walk here, we are walking on UNESCO world heritage sites.

Saint-Guilhem-Le-Desert

We are almost settle into this routine of “unsettledness”. The pros are what we dreamt off: deviating routes searching for that particular spot; stopping in front of a dam for lunch, feeling like doing a workout in a near picnic area....that sense of exploring new territories, places that otherwise we wouldn't’ have known. The down of this life is that going aimless waste time and effort in petty things, like going back and forward trying to get somewhere and then missing out completely because that particular day it was closed....and the reality that being self sufficient made us more hermits than we were before L

By this stage we have become used to sleeping on our motorhome and on the street. We figure out that small villages are great for being safe. We tend to find spots with our SalSolcito where we don’t bother people or not drawing much attention. Just stopping, closing all windows, ... the front curtains and pretty much we arrived to our bed.  We have learned that every 2/3 days we need to “clean” our water so we look for special services for motorhomes. In that sense, France has been an incredible place to travel.

I miss the kids a lot; I end up in places like McDonald's just to get some wifi that will connect me with them.

15 May

Vernet-Le Bains: There is nothing like arriving at a hot spring site on a chilly afternoon! Just to get into waters of 37 degrees is a bless... and we did an energetic and hard aquarobics session! ...and a profound encounter took place then and there.....as we tried – unsuccessfully-to communicate with the receptionist, a lady comes over to help. She was a teacher in her youth, now she couldn't remember much and yet we ended up talking.... I tell her about our trip and our dream. I could never forget her eyes when she said  “ you have to do what you want to do in life while you can “.... she has just being diagnosed with Parkinson and  come over here (paid by the government) as this water have unique properties to mitigate some of the secondary effects of the disease.... Hector and I look at each other; if we ever needed confirmation that this trip was the right thing to do.... and we celebrate our 32 years wedding anniversary!