Swing-tiago path
“I'm from California and New York,” he illustrates. Elaine Silver, a native of San Luis Obispo, California about his American origin. Lives with his partner in love, in work, in coexistence and dances. “We met in dance classes,” illustrates the better half, Shawn Forno, also from California, but closer to Los Angeles. The spark arose on the East Coast, specifically in Manhattan. She taught swing classes at Columbia University, after ruling out working with her training. engineer. “Dancing is more fun"I like people more than numbers!" he clarifies. He enrolled as a student between breaks from his work as writer, and that's how the story began. “The date arose two years after the first class,” Lainey points out, of course he had to win her over.
The road from the USA
We have to recognize that the headline is not ours, it was given to us by Shawn, who in addition to creative polygraph, has a very quick humor. “Oh the future time!”, he will exclaim at a certain point with a very comical gesture, when asked about what has not yet been written, they live in the present delighted. “We just live in the moment” he comments, laughter emerging.
“I am a travel writer, I work for tourism-oriented companies," he reveals. We can see his articles in Lonely Planet, the great guide publishing house, and also on Medium, known content platform created by the co-founders of Twitter. “I saw a movie that I thought was great and I moved to New York,” he explains bluntly. to the adventure, working as a waiter, in museums, “even selling Christmas trees on the street,” he reveals. A hustler describes him well, “We love the roads,” he confesses minutes later. There are those who understand that life has an end, and there are those who, like S. Forno, think that the end is life.
From New York to the old town, where they reside here, wrote a few pages in their history. “We traveled around the world for ten months, Vietnam, Singapore, Spain, the Philippines, Tasmania, Australia...", Lainey lists, "It could have been San Sebastián or Croatia," Shawn points out. "In 2017 we took the northern route," they explain about the journey from Irún to Ribadeo. "Me in 2008, before university," Shawn points out. Real ones! illuminated by the Apostle that extends its influence to the other side of the pond! Next came covid-19 that returned them with their suitcases to the American west coast.
In line with the packages we have to say that it is this couple packaging specialist. They populate their Instagram 'dayswespend', videos and photos with tiny backpacks for excursions that last weeks. “Those videos and the ones about the costs of living in Spain they work very well", they comment. "We look very closely at money because we have good months and others that are not so good," they clarify. The writer adds that their smiles and their friendly poses are also attractive.
The power of the waters
“The hot springs brought us to Ourense", after the Camino de Santiago they spent a week soaking in the pools, and it was there when they discovered the greatness of our waters. Lainey won a ham in the last pincho contest in Ourense, and Shawn recognizes that in the wizards have a great time. “
The wines, the nature, the Asesou climbing wall, being two hours from Madrid by train,” they comment as a duo, they often visit the capital where, recently, Shawn has a brother.
“In February we are going to do the Gran Canaria road", they comment, a walk between volcanoes. That is the furthest we can go in time with them (not in a physical journey), from then on, everything, except Ourense as a base, is uncertain.
In a hilarious interrogation about local curiosities, we enjoy both what is said between the lines and its many occurrences. They leave us dead with the arbitrariness of their knowledge, they only remember San Martiño for the wine and the chorizos, but the term 'barallete' arose spontaneously.
"Me I would love to choose the bagpipes, but I play the guitar", recognizes Shawn, and with it, all his idiosyncrasy. We will mention, however, a choice they made as the end of the party, which we love, and which we were already expecting a little. The 'dayswespend' couple puts the Spanish siesta before the legendary American dream.
FOUNTAIN: THE REGION
