I'm legal!

FINALLY got my carte de séjour, thank you France.

This weekend, I went to the Calypso Spa in Dax, it is a natural hot spring discovered by the Romans a thousand or two years ago that is now being used Jimmy Carter style as indoor/outdoor swimming pools of different temperatures with a the whole sauna and whatnot experience. Not bad, I must say!

The following day was absolutely beautiful so we went for a MOTORCYLE séjour to SPAIN. Yay! My first time across the border! I brought my passport and all that thinking someone would be looking at it, but the only thing that marked the change of county was an abandoned customs office. Lots of people from France go to Spain to take advantage of the tax-free gasoline, cigarettes, and alcohol. It is kind of like how at the border between one state that allows fireworks and one that doesn't, there are always massive fireworks stands on the legal side. All the signs for the stores were in French because that's the only clientelle they have there, so it wasn't exactly what I'd call an authentic experience, but I was in Spain, and I think I heard a couple of employees in the store speaking Spanish with eachother. Good enough! The real joy of the experience was the motorcycle ride, mid 60s and sunny. On the way back, we stopped at the coastal town of Biaritz and I caught some pictures of the sunset. That's one thing I like about the west coast of anywhere...if you want to see a beautiful horizon, you don't have to literaly wake up at the crack of dawn to take pictures of it, you get to wait until the sun sets.

I'm back to work today, there is always such a big contrast between wherever I spend my weeken and Aire. I've decided I really, really like the coast in the southwest of France, very beautiful.