Keep looking. They’re all different, once you know the signs. Except for the immatures, which are totally confusing.

Steve is amazing. I gnash my teeth and writhe in frustration. We each have our strengths, and computers is most assuredly not one of my core strengths.

You are amazing to make the transition to your new computer All By Yourself! I, and Janos too, have to send an SOS to Herr Schmid when there are problems.

I agree, Larry..up to a point! Only because once you are complacent, the “upgrades” seem to change it all again..

Think I’ve been done this road myself … way too many times now. My world now is contained on my iPad.

Thank goodness Steve is good with computers because Dodie only can deal with them when they work properly, otherwise she hates them.

So much for teaching an old dog new tricks!..Or, in this case, the computer itself.

That one is the spare, kept inside for warmth, and alternated with the other to prevent freezing.

Like how your hummingbird feeder is INSIDE the window! Now that’s real cozy ;)

But not having any power isn’t overrated! As I type this, we are in the midst of a storm here in northern CA, with flashlights standing by…just in case…

Many kinds of excitement are vastly overrated.

I'm happy we did not have an exciting ending to the wiring piece of the story!

You might be interested to learn that Al and I first met the Classens in the queue with our bikes, waiting to board the ferry from Sidney to Friday Harbor in the summer of 2014. Kathleen and I talked about our then-new bikes (her Surly, my Co-Motion), that other site, and the Grampies. I've no idea what Al and Keith talked about.

I was going to say this should be easy, because we took the same journey by bus in the other direction four years ago: https://www.cycleblaze.com/journals/iberia2019/to-malaga/. But then I looked at Alsa’s baggage policy (they’re the carrier on this line), and saw this:

From January 10, 2024, access to the bus with electric scooters is prohibited on all Alsa services. This prohibition applies not only to electric scooters, but to any other mobility device equipped with batteries.

So you might want to contact them to see if this includes e-bikes. Another possibility would be a one-way car rental, but you need to have an international drivers permit. Easy to get from AAA, if you haven’t got one. I should probably do that myself, just in case.

Last time in Santiago we failed to find a train out and had to throw the bikes under a bus. This time we think we have found a ship bikes service that could take them to Pamplona, and we'll follow by train. But we are most likely to trip up with Malaga to Cordoba. We are Booked on either side of that gap and could not afford the three days if we had to pedal it.