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Bought Alsa bus ticket, Madrid->Granada, and made reservation for hotel in Granada. Might need to buy groceries upon arrival Friday in Granada, in case stores closed for Día de Andalucía on Saturday. Confirmed that buses to Dúrcal run on Día de Andalucía.
Mailed Raytheon pension forms.
Felt sick in evening.
Terrible stomach ache all night, probably food poisoning. Skipped morning exercises other than pushups and pullups.
Something still not right with intestines. Skipped morning exercises other than RDLs, pushups, chinups. Explosive foul-smelling diarrhea in afternoon. Felt much better afterwards.
Something still not right with intestines, though improving. Did all morning exercises normally, though noticed some tiredness on jump squats.
Bought flights for another Argentina trip. Madrid-Buenos Aires on Ne Plus Ultra for $847 (depart midnight May 27, arrive early May 28, depart noon Aug 11, arrive early morning Aug 12). Madrid-Belgrade on Air Serbia for $107 (depart noon Aug 12, arrive mid-afternoon Aug 12). Buying experience stressful as usual due to clumsy airline web sites. Air Serbia purchase failed completely on smartphone. Tried both BofA Visa and CapitalOne Mastercard with both Opera and Chrome browsers. Then switched to laptop running Windows 11 using Opera browser. Bofa Visa again failed but CapitalOne Mastercard succeeded. Problems apparently related to browser switching from Air Serbia website to/from Visa Secure and Mastercard Secure 2FA verification websites. Incredible how people expect Artificial Intelligence to revolutionize the world when companies can't even get what amounts to 1970's computer technology to work properly, including situations where the company has a massive financial incentive to get things to work.
Debating what to do about Ukraine storage locker, whose rent is coming due. Previously, I felt good about continuing to pay rent, as if thereby committing myself to eventually returning to Ukraine as my permanent summer/winter home, which I looked forward to. But situation has changed due to all the infrastructure damage. Time is long overdue for true patriots in the security forces to stage a coup, exterminate the worthless politicians and other war profiteers, surrender to Russia. Ukraine is already is half in ruins and will soon be fully ruined. It's like no one in the security forces there has any desire for Ukraine to continue to exist as more than a Galician rump in the west and depopulated agriculture/mining colony owned by transnational corporations elsewhere, older people dying off, younger people moved to EU or Russia, immigrants from Africa and South Asia working in the agricultural/mining colony. Destruction of electrical and communal heating utilities means winter will be unlivable for many years to come. If just spending summers in Ukraine (winters bicycle touring in USA) and even that only starting 2027 at the earliest, then storage locker not so important.
Fly Reno to San Francisco. Fly San Francisco to Istanbul.
Sleep on floor in Istanbul airport.
Arrival in Madrid. tbc MasLife mobile. tbc cash from ATMs. €34 Alsa bus to Granada. €72 through booking.com at Hotel Universal by Maxi Hoteles.
Día de Andalucía. Bus 360 to Dúrcal, leaving 10:10.
90th day in Schengen.
Total of tbc nights in Spain: tbc nights camping, 33 nights in hotels. €tbc total hotel expenses, or average of €tbc/night.