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October 6, 2004 to October 10, 2004

Finally, let’s close out this rewrite with a few final items. First, a word about the golden notebook that I found this journal and two others embedded within. It looks to me like I used this notebook for several of our tours between 2000 and 2004: probably four bike tours and a kayaking excursion. It looks like I used it opportunistically, grabbing chunks of unused places where I could find them. Below are all he pages other than the written journal itself that associate with this tour.

This is the front page of the notebook. It includes a log of all the overnight stays for our 2001 tour from Florence to Dubrovnik. This page makes me believe that the journal for that tour was originally written here, and the pages ripped out after it was transcribed. In the upper corner though is contact information for the road angel who guided us to a Granada,

This is the distance and elevation log for the Andalucia tour.

This is detailed information about the lost passports: addresses of both the local police and national guard stations, identifying number for the police report, and the opening hours for the American embassy in Madrid.

This is a section of a four or five page photo log, intended to help me place photographs after we returned home.

Information about the flight home from Madrid, and what I think must be the numbers and issuance dates of the lost passports.

And finally, I want to make an educated guess at what the original planned ending for the tour was. I’ve puzzled over this for years, wondering if we planed to double back to Malaga and fly home from there or if we we were biking to Madrid already anyway.

Now that I’ve read the original though I think I’ve found my answer in the comment that we were happy to be able to cancel our reservation in Baeza. It looks obvious that we meant to stop here; and given the number of days remaining in the tour it wouldn’t really have been possible to bike to Madrid. We must have always meant to return to Malaga, although I’m surprised the journal never says anything about this.

I remember something about the planning of this tour, and that I wanted to see both Baeza and Ubeda, as well as Cazorla. What I think most likely is that I planned to bike from Baeza ro Cazorla, stay there overnight, and then bike back to Ubeda the next day. From there we would have biked south to Malaga through a different route than we’d already taken. To me the natural route would have been south to Alhama de Granada and Velez Malaga. Maybe something like shown below then.

But of course it this point all we can do is speculate. It does ease my mind though to at least think I finally know where we planned to fly home from.

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