Thursday 23

Where is my bike? Certainly not in Amsterdam!

Our best guess is it is in San Francisco, and sadly, we are still guessing.

Today I went back to Schiphol Airport to get traction on solving the Where's Wally? question.

All the KLM staff I talked to were very helpful and Mike from the unaccompanied and unclaimed baggage office made the most progress. He emailed the handlers at SFO an updated description of the bags and asked them to do a physical search of stored baggage. At 7.30 SFO confirmed they would take a look, and maybe Wally will be on tonight's flight

With the uncertainty on locating the baggage I decided to rebook my flight to Portugal for Monday 27th, a delay of 2 days.

Let's see what develops tomorrow.

Friday 24

Found Wally!

Bike and bag are enroute to AMS, yipee!

Oh, but wait, I got excited when I saw that info on the bag tracking portal at 6.30 this morning, but at 4pm I still haven't had notification that KLM are in possession of the bags in AMS.

Saturday 25

Wally was handed over at 2245 on Friday, but my second bag is still not in Amsterdam.

Having the bike and most of the difficult-to-replace kit is great. It will be annoying, but easier, to replace the carefully curated and worn in range of clothes, shoes, tent, sleeping bag, cooker, etc that is in the not-yet-located bag.

I went out to Schiphol again but no bag came off the SFO flight that arrived at 0900. I am not encouraged by the fact that the bag has not been located in SFO and I'm not sure anyone is actually looking.

With my Portugal flight just one day away there is only a slim chance the bag will arrive before I leave, so I decided to start the mega shop to replace all the gear in the bag, knowing I won't be able to replace some of it

Decathlon have supplied a new tent, sleeping bag, mat, shoes, and riding clothes. Tomorrow I will hit the local bike shop for the bike specific items that Decathlon didn't stock.

From Faro I will be riding past 4 Decathlons so I didn't have to buy everything today.