No, this is referring to his original 2003 trip: > Four years later, in 2003, I was living in France. And my curiosity finally got the better of me. I traveled

No, this is referring to his original 2003 trip: > Four years later, in 2003, I was living in France. And my curiosity finally got the better of me. I traveled to Val d’Aosta on my own dime to write a story that I eventually came to call “Searching for Spadino. > I spent a week seeking out his family, friends, and coworkers and imploring them to talk to me. Through them, I felt I got to know a subject who was so self-effacing that his closest friends could barely even find a snapshot of him.