The night after our being detained by Catalonian Separatists, we headed off again in the cooler night air, continuing on towards Madrid.
Again in a mountainous area, at a bend in the road, you guessed it - another roadblock! Just as the night before, an uniformed officer asked for our papers. Only this guy was really nervous - so nervous that father was actual getting concerned for our safety! Father tried to get a conversation going but the guy just got on his radio and talked so rapidly no one knew what he was saying.
Several minutes later, a military jeep drives up with some - what I am guessing were Spanish MPs. One of them was quite fluent in English and from the car I caught the gist of the conversations - they had managed to drive too close to the shoulder of the road with a tractor trailer hauling a nuke and rolled it.
Father then identified himself, more talking on the radio and they were off - father to inspect said nuke and to supervise the correct reloading to the carrier on the trailer.
Once completed, father returned and we drove on with lots of smiles and hand waving by those still working on the mess they had made.
It was the first time I had ever seen one of the newer missiles and I was impressed. No idea as to which one it was but it was cool to see something you heard about but no one had any pictures of.....
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