Reno to Fuerteventura, Canary Islands

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Saturday 3 February 2024.

Duke and I are at the start of another adventure. Tonight we are sitting on the balcony of our room in our hotel overlooking the Atlantic. We are on the island of Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands. It was a long trip to get here but we made it!

We left Reno Wednesday and drove to Walnut Creek. Thursday Allison and the kids drove us to BART where we caught a train to San Francisco airport.

Our flight from San Francisco to Paris was on French Bee Airlines, an airline that is new to us. We were a bit late leaving the gate and then sat waiting while 10 or more planes landed before finally we took off. Apparently there was only one runway open because of maintenance work.

We arrived at Orly airport and walked across the street to our hotel. We were each pretty tired after the red eye flight so we went to bed at 7pm and were immediately asleep.

Since our plane to Fuerteventura was at 6:30 the next morning it didn’t really matter that we woke up about 3am. We walked back to the airport, had croissants and coffee, then caught our flight to the island of Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands.

We rented a car and drove to the other end of the island where we are staying at a beautiful Meliā resort. After naps we went out exploring and checked out the pools and the beach.