After some shenanigans in Mexico City that are worthy of an entire blog post of their own, I landed in Madrid today. Photos above are from the stunning Barajas airport by Calatrava Richard Rogers & Estudio Lamela. The middle one is of Neil, my comrade on this epic adventure.

Upon landing at Madrid, our colleagues in the Microsoft office there had done us proud by getting us on to an Iberia flight to San Sebastian. In return we provided the with a Windows 7 Phone that I had been asked to courier to Spain. Little did I know when I was handed the phone on Saturday afternoon that it would become the ultimate currency as I ended up in the precise city is needed to be :)

I got to San Sebastian in good time, clearing ~500 miles of road that some other colleagues from our Paris office were about to venture on and then it was to the road in a car. Next stop Paris!

I’m posting geotagged entries to Twitter for those wanting to track the adventure. Next stop Paris and then to traverse the English Channel. I hear the airspace is starting to reopen slowly which is fantastic news for all my friends still stranded in the US. For me, this has been a crazy and amazing journey that has been made even more fun because of all the well wihses via email and Twitter. Keep ‘em coming!

Steve