Cadiz, Spain

The idea here was to find a cheap place to by the water where I could relax, meet some travelers and plot my next steps in Spain. My favorite part of traveling of season is that I don´t have to plan ahead and things fall together. I bused into Cadiz, walked across town to my hostel and found it in the process of being completely gutted for renovations. My second choice was booked and I ended up spending 4 days of housing budget on two. My favorite part of traveling off season is that I don´t have to plan a head and things magically fall together... Except for my lack of planning causes them to fall apart.

Cadiz is a port town where once three fourths of the wealth from the Americas to Spain flowed through. It fell off of late, but does OK as a port/tourist town. The cathedral here is huge and during service the priest´s words are magnified and given weight by the room reverb. I won´t get even into how nice the pipe organ sounds. In Spain people leave the house at night to take a little ramble about town. That explains all the little plazas and cafes for people to meet up. It also explains the sense of community here. If people spending their evenings walking around their neighborhood instead of watching TV, you are bound to meet neighbors. I kinda like that part of life here.

I have one month left and I think it will be a good time for this journey of mine to end. What I am really wanting right now is a computer, internet, a few pens and a printer in a configuration that looks something like an office. There are plots I need to enact and balls that need to start rolling for school and jobs in the US. If I could have two solid days of this and then have plans to meet up with friends in the evening, that´d hit the spot. When talking to folks about this trip they would always tell me there would be a point where I would get incredibly homesick. They were right.