Velo News - Last flight out of Spain: Bookwalter’s great escape
Brent Bookwalter lives in two worlds. One is his adopted hometown of Girona, Spain, where he’s lived and raced for more than a decade. The other is Asheville, North Carolina, where he and his wife own a home, close to family and friends.
Over the course of what’s been a harrowing few weeks, the Mitchelton-Scott rider had to decide in which home he was going to ride out the coronavirus storm.
With borders closing, flights being canceled, and entire nations ordered into lockdown in an unprecedented global crisis, Bookwalter and his wife, Jamie, along with their newborn son, Waylon, suddenly wanted to be back in the United States.
It wasn’t quite the last flight out of Saigon, but it was close enough.