44. 10/XII/24: BIG TRIP WOOO

okay I'm going to be completely honest with you, I should've recorded this trip the same way I did the ren fair blog, writing everything down as it went down, because I really don't know what I'm going to remember now LOL
also, since posting the images to this site directly would bloat the size too much, I have uploaded the photos themselves to Imgur, so let's hope that they don't get taken down

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5/XII
my cousin had heard me the day before that I was arranging how to go back home after classes, and she offered to take me home since it was halfway down the road for her
so after talking with my parents about it and finishing my classes, she picked me up and took me back home
once there, there was a technician from the burglar alarm company checking the state of the smoke detectors
it turns out that mine's batteries had ran out and it had unlinked itself from the alarm central, so once he connected it it was as good as new
we had lunch at home, and after getting all my things in the RV we set off
the route we took was A-381 to Jerez, AP-4 and A-4 to Sevilla, A-66 to Monesterio, EX-103 to Llerena and N-432 to Berlanga, our destination
we got there at around 19 o clock, and I said hi to my aunt and uncle, which had also come with us for the trip but arrived earlier
along the way we came across TEN different broken down or crashed vehicles, and on top of that, a car using an escape ramp and a truck blowing up a tire right after we passed it, when we had barely begun our journey
it was definitely scary, but hey! we did get to our destination!

15:13 I've been thru this hwy so many times that I'm tired of seeing it. it's still a pride for me as an engineer	15:23 the old bridge over the reservoir. right now (10/XII) it's at 27% of its capacity, 21'48 hm3	15:43 the warning sign for one of the many radars in the A-381	15:43 the view over the Río Álamo, with the old road in sight	15:43 the view over the Río Álamo	15:48 new windmills being put up
15:48 there's a LOT of them!	15:55 faaade ooout...	15:55 agaaaiiin! the condition of some of these road signs is truly deplorable	15:59 are you kidding me???	16:01 guys, don't eat and drive	16:08 truly a power move, to carry your own forklift to unload the truck
16:16 cool sign on the AP-4	16:16 a closeup on the pictogram	16:16 gas station and restaurant, 25 km ahead. what's funnier is that this sign is right after another gas station	16:25 a building that I confused for Las Cabezas de San Juan	16:29 Las Cabezas de San Juan, for real this time	16:40 MMM, tasty
16:54 "cyclist, beware when passing this vehicle on the inside. dead angle, beware"	16:58 the Puente del Centenario as seen from the south on the A-4	17:04 a monolith indicating the entry to an industrial estate	17:14 an old cuartel of the Guardia Civil	17:20 "joint-venture for the replacement of the cables in the Puente del Centenario"	17:22 the view from up here is amazing. the traffic, not so much
17:22 vertical photo of the first tower	17:22 horizontal photo of the second tower. in 16:9! wow!	17:27 interesting sign, it reminds me of the US APL ones	17:31 the Torre Sevilla, the city's first skyscraper. it stands out like the sorest of thumbs, I hate it	17:40 an old car and the front of an old van at the entry of a scrapyard	17:52 at last, open country again...
17:55 Barcelona WW license plate, the first car in the rear view mirror	18:03 the view ahead, down the A-66	18:05 many people try to get selfies from their cars with the back of tankers. I didn't have much luck	18:13 sunset facing east	18:13 sunset facing west	18:25 finally entering Extremadura!
18:30 passing a service area. it's so cool to see it lit up like that	18:30 a van broke down right after that service area. there's bad luck, and then there's this lol	19:14 N-432, the last leg of our journey, a surprisingly straight piece of road	19:30 I liked how the stencil on this sign looks. apparently the owner of this restaurant hates RV's, so we were told to not eat here	20:51 an excavator!

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