Hi Kathy. Welcome!
You could catch the train from Madrid Charmartin (catch the metro from Madrid airport to Chamartin station) to Bayonne. Then Bayonne to St Jean. Info can be found at renfe.com or raileurope.com.
There may be better ways to do it but this gives you a start. I'm sure other pilgrims will chime in with the appropriate advice.
Buen Camino!
From the west coast you can arrive in Madrid in the morning and have time to get to the Atocha train station from the airport and then catch the train to Pamplone. You can get there in the afternoon spend the night then use local trandport, ride share, to SJPDP. I have 1 layover going and a direct back. Both flights are 12 hours. Check GOOGLE flight.
For me, the best way to get to SJPP from Madrid is via bus to Pamplona.
Walk out of Terminal 4 and onto a bus to Pamplona. (Around €35)
Stay there a day or two, recover from the time change, see the city.
Then catch a bus to SJPP. (around €20)
When you walk back through Pamplona you've already seen it and can get "between" the Brierley stages, missing the huge wave of pilgrims that walk according to the book.
I booked a flight from Madrid to Biarritz. It is about an hour flight and cost$65 us dollors. If your times work out, it might be the easiest way to go.
I used Fareboom website for booking.
Thank you for all the suggestions. We have talked quite a bit about it and so far have decided to stay the first night in Madrid and then make our way on to Pamplona and SJPdP with a clear head, rested from the flights getting there.
The one from Galicia (the round) and the one from Castilla & Leon. Individually numbered and made by the same people that make the ones you see on your walk.
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