On the bus ride from Carcassonne to Barcelona, I was catapulted from my medieval fantasy mode to our present reality by the racket created by Ms. Lady Leader and her gang (a clique of seniors that comprised almost half of our tour group and who had recently embarked on a new hobby of playing poker while on the road to pilgrimage sites). Fifteen minutes into the ride and the merry group of card players were already resuming their game. I could tell that majority of the other p