{"id":34143,"date":"2018-11-16T21:25:39","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T02:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therockysafari.com\/?p=34143"},"modified":"2023-10-07T09:47:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T13:47:56","slug":"tomato-slides-on-map-la-tomatina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therockysafari.com\/2018\/11\/16\/tomato-slides-on-map-la-tomatina\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story of How I Discovered My Destiny To Attend The La Tomatina Festival In Bu\u00f1ol!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">I have proof that destiny exists. Destiny is the only plausible explanation for how I found myself in Spain at just the right time to participate in the world\u2019s largest tomato food fight. <strong>I believe I was destined to attend Spain\u2019s La Tomatina Festival in 2018.<\/strong> What other explanation could there be for how\/why I ended up in Spain during the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">exact<\/span> month the annual festival is held in? I had never even so much as heard of the festival prior to going to Spain so trust me when I tell you there was zero planning taking place in advance.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-34147 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.therockysafari.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_2426.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=590,height=350,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_2426.jpg 590w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=300,height=178,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_2426.jpg 300w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=290,height=172,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_2426.jpg 290w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=407,height=241,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_2426.jpg 407w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=512,height=304,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_2426.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I wish I could say I was that organized but that wasn&#8217;t the case. This was destiny, plain and simple. Jorge and I were meant to attend La Tomatina this year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-34148\" src=\"https:\/\/www.therockysafari.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_3467-1024x335.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1024,height=335,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_3467.jpg 1024w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=300,height=98,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_3467.jpg 300w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=768,height=251,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_3467.jpg 768w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1536,height=502,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_3467.jpg 1536w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=2048,height=669,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_3467.jpg 2048w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=290,height=95,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_3467.jpg 290w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=407,height=133,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_3467.jpg 407w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=800,height=261,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_3467.jpg 800w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=512,height=167,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_3467.jpg 512w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1220,height=399,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_3467.jpg 1220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The two of us were already traveling through Spain during the month of the event. We had just visited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therockysafari.com\/2018\/11\/12\/cuenca-and-the-casas-colgadas\/\">Cuenca<\/a>. Prior to discovering La Tomatina, our preliminary travel itinerary was ALREADY bringing us in the SAME direction as the festival. Not even just the same direction. We were already headed to the same city! I mean, really&#8230; how much more could the stars align for us to go to this thing!?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">My Tomatina story all began one quiet summer night while I was laying down in bed alone. Since we didn\u2019t have WiFi in the city Jorge and I were in, I booted up my <a href=\"https:\/\/mbsy.co\/lNBLV\">4G Teppy global mobile hotspot<\/a>\u00a0so I could check Instagram and see what people back at home have been up to. On Instagram, <strong>a sponsored advertisement came up and I learned about a festival called La Tomatina.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-34153 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.therockysafari.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/sponsored-294x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"381\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=294,height=300,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/sponsored.jpg 294w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1004,height=1024,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/sponsored.jpg 1004w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=768,height=783,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/sponsored.jpg 768w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=290,height=296,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/sponsored.jpg 290w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=407,height=415,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/sponsored.jpg 407w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=800,height=816,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/sponsored.jpg 800w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=512,height=522,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/sponsored.jpg 512w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1220,height=1245,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/sponsored.jpg 1220w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1242,height=1267,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/sponsored.jpg 1242w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 381px) 100vw, 381px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The thumbnail was intriguing so I clicked on some video and I was SUCKED INTO 30 SECONDS OF TOMATO INSANITY. I can&#8217;t find the exact video anymore but I watched some promotional video for Tomatina 2018 where they showed massive mobs of people throwing tomatoes <strong>everywhere<\/strong>. Chaos and tomato-warfare ensued. At the end of the video, they showed an animation of the official event route using a cheaply-animated picture of a tomato sliding across a map of Bu\u00f1ol, Valencia. With that one scene, I was sold on the whole event.\u00a0Jorge and I would 100% be going to La Tomatina 2018.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_34164\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34164\" style=\"width: 459px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-34164 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.therockysafari.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/featuredmapimage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=750,height=620,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/featuredmapimage.jpg 750w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=300,height=248,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/featuredmapimage.jpg 300w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=284,height=235,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/featuredmapimage.jpg 284w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=290,height=240,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/featuredmapimage.jpg 290w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=407,height=336,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/featuredmapimage.jpg 407w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34164\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It brings me so much sadness to say that I couldn\u2019t find the original footage of the tomato sliding across the map so I\u2019ve tried to recreate the effect for my readers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;JORGEEEEEE!!!!! COME HERE!!!!!!!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I held my phone out so he could watch what I&#8217;d just found on Instagram. Together, we watched the high quality cinematic production finishing with the tomato thumbnail that trails 1 second behind the line it is supposed to be sliding in front of. After seeing that animation, he, too, was sold on attending the festival this year. We were both going.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-34168\" src=\"https:\/\/www.therockysafari.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_3226-1024x769.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"769\" srcset=\"\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1024,height=769,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_3226.jpg 1024w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=300,height=225,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_3226.jpg 300w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=768,height=577,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_3226.jpg 768w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1536,height=1154,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_3226.jpg 1536w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=2048,height=1539,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_3226.jpg 2048w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=290,height=218,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_3226.jpg 290w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=407,height=306,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_3226.jpg 407w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=800,height=601,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_3226.jpg 800w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=512,height=385,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_3226.jpg 512w, \/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1220,height=917,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_3226.jpg 1220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As though\u00a0I was fulfilling some sort of tomato prophecy, I could feel some force guiding my fingers as I clicked all the way through to the final check out screen where I purchased 2 tickets for the 2018 La Tomatina Tomato Festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have proof that destiny exists. 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