1st Contact

I finally exchanged several texts from Neve this morning.  She is near St Jean  Pied de Port and is getting very spotty cell coverage to send texts.  I think her first day is to recuperate from all the air travel and shuttling to St Jean Pied de Port.

I am currently on the phone trying to confirm her return flight back on Oct 20th with AA from CDG to RDU since they had changed her initial reservations on flight out. It's such a mess but I know Neve will not be able to confirm this while trekking through Spain.

On the home front, the kiddos miss their Mommy and know where she is today.  They are all in good spirits and we will be tracking her movements when we get status updates from her.

Just an update:  I managed to get AA to issue her ticket for Paris-London-RDU at 07:40am on Oct 20th.  now we need to get the Iberia flight from Santiage de Compostella->Paris pushed for Oct 19th.

She is in Orrison tonight..... Sleep well Mama!

First Day Sans Mama

This morning I received a text around 6am from Neve that she finally made it to Orly and is about to fly to Biarritz.  It was brief and she noted she was exhausted (understandingly). 
Her next leg is to get to St Jean de Port for her opening chapter of her journey on the Camino.

This morning, home life was very busy.   Although I was up until 1am working, I managed to get the kiddos up and ready for school. 

It's definitely going to be a transition to work virtually from home and be 'Mr. Mom'....

Departure

We just left Neve as she checked into her gate (1pm) for her leg to JFK and then to Paris.....

Safe travels Mama!!!



 

So this day has been an almost a traveling disaster for Neve...  The afore-mentioned flight was changed to a Delta flight to Boston that would depart 1 hour later (3:15pm).  But due to severe lightening delays, it never even took off.  So she had to transfer again to another flight going to La Guardia and then take a chauffered car to JFK for the 9:10pm flight to Paris.   I just got off the phone with her and they are working out her ticket still to Paris....

 

It definitely hasn't been a smoothe send off to the Camino, but if she makes this flight, she still has to get to next connection from Orly to Biarritz then to St Jean Pied dePort.

 

Whew... I knew it wasn't easy traveling, but this is a whopper of a day!  Hang in there Mama!