So, the day was supposed to be glorious. It was my first full Saturday on the Grand Tour to experience Tenerife outside of the short excursions I'd made during the workweek. It turns out that plan was not to be. On my way down the mountainside, I approached a line of cars stopped at a turn off. As I slowed my car toward the stopped line, I heard the screeching of tires right before a commercial van plowed into the rear of my rental. I was pushed forward and my car slammed into the line of cars in front of me. Luckily no one was hurt. The police arrived and retrieved statements from all involved before handing me a slip of paper with the insurance information of the van that hit me. My rental was still drivable, so I returned to the rental agency and they supplied me with a new car and sent me on my way. The day turned out to be memorable, it just wasn't memorable in the way I had imagined.
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