where and when

• 22: fly into madrid, train to granada
• 25: train to seville
• 29: to madrid
• 2: flight home

to book

• ✔ train to granada
• ✔ hotel in granada
• ✔ train to seville
• ✔ hotel in seville
• ✔ train to madrid
• ✔ hotel in madrid
• ✔ food tour in seville
• Prado tickets?
• transport from madrid airport to train station?

info

• 12 days
• 2 days vegas
• 10 days outdoors

temperature ranges

• Las Vegas: 73–95° (highs low 90s)
• Grand Canyon Village: 37–78° (highs mid 70s)
• Moab (Canyonlands/Arches): 60–80° (highs high 70s)
• Bryce Canyon City: 34–70° (highs mid 60s–low 70s)
• Zion National Park: 45–85° (highs low 80s)

clothes

• pjs
• nice clothes for vegas:
  • black aday tee

named for Gordon Ramsay and Ramesses II

• Ram
• Rams
• Ramby
• Rammy
• Chicken
• Mr. Cat
• Kitten
• Tuna Face
• Ramazon Prime
• Ramzan

i can't put it into words or fully understand why, but i find my mind returning to them and i find myself feeling them

• Primavera by Sandro Botticelli
• Pulaski at Night by Andrew Bird
• babbling brook sounds
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• The New Pope season 1
• Bratislava, Hungary
• cacio e pepe and riesling in Brno
• Late Spring by Yasujirō Ozu
• being underwater
• Fleabag
• mountains

• ✔ Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
• ✔ The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
• ✔ Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith
• Lavinia by Ursula K LeGuin
• ✔ Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
• ✔ Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
• The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji
• ✔ A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
• Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton

M's dates

• Madrid: 15–20
• Granada: 20–25
• Seville: 25–9

My goal

• 9 days

Options

• fly into Madrid
  • spend a day in Salamanca (
  • or a day in Valladolid (
• fly into Madrid
  • go directly to Granada (
• fly into Seville, fly out madrid
  • seville to madrid (3 hr)

21: flight22: make way to Granada23: granada24: granada25: granada --> seville26: ...

2021

• alcoholic drink: negroni or milk punch
• ancient civilization: Minoan
• animal: black cat
• artist: Sandro Botticelli
• beach: Achlia-Galini
• cheese: blue
• chocolate: dark
• classical song: Moonlight Sonata
• coffee: iced salted honey latte
• color: emerald
• dish to make: short rib ragu
• dessert: chocolate pot de crème
• element: water
• flower: peony
• food: fatteh
• fruit: pear
• gemstone: emerald or ruby
• gelato: stracciatella
• Greek food: tiropita
• holiday: Christmas Eve