If you read this journal inthe past. You might have noticed that I said I was ceeating a journal for the tour years after the fact, from memory, with the assistance of the photographs that remained.  This original journal was published in July, 2019 when I was refreshing my memory of this first visit to the region prior to visiting it again on our ride from Santiago to Valencia.

To my complete shock, the original handwritten journal was just discovered in a cleanup project when we were starting to declutter our storage unit.  I found the original hand-written journal in our storage unit, ink stained and  just waiting for it to finally be rediscovered, overlooked because it began several pages into the notebook, masked by several pages from a different tour inside.  In fact, this notebook proved to be a gold mine, containing also the journal of our tour from Innsbruck to Geneva as well as notes on our sea cayaking excursion in Baja California,

Rediscovery of the original has been a fascinating exercise, bringing back many important memories of what actually occurred twenty years ago.  It’s not only more accurate, it provides a much richer and more interesting narrative than the one I pulled together out of my hat fifteen years after the fact,

So I’m starting over, transcribing the original.  Unfortunately, as tended to happen with my hand-written journals, I got behind and eventually stopped writing.  This one ends the day before we arrived in Granada, which is unfortunate because on the day leaving Granada we lost our passports, and that changed everything.  I remember many of the high points of the following week, but I sure would like to have that detail back too.

So the journal has been completely rewritten, using the original written journal as text until it abruptly ends on the way to Granada.  The remaining pages are memory-drawn.  The photos are all from the original, but have been run through the photo editor on my iPad to improve their sharpnesss. 

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