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We Survived the Blackout Despite Multiple Travel Fails

Or how we avoided being stranded in the middle of nowhere in Spain.

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Daryl & Mindi Hirsch
May 04, 2025
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The power had already been out for five hours and we were on the road from Jaén, a cute, medium-sized city in Andalusia, Spain. We were on the way to our temporary home in Priego de Córdoba and our rental car’s dashboard display told us that we had 72 kilometers of gas left in the tank. Meanwhile, the car’s built in GPS told us that…

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