After what seemed like an almost daily repetition of opening and closing our suitcases, TJ had found an AirBNB in lesser known central Portugal, that would fit our needs to relax and stay in one spot where we could start organizing our move to Europe. Southeast of Porto in the lower foothills of the central …
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Mar 20 2025
Port of Call Change to Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Storms to the north forced us to change the Portuguese Island of Madeira for Santa Cruz de Tenerife for the much farther south Spanish Canary Islands. Santa Cruz de Tenerife was a good choice, especially since we had visited Madeira a couple of years before and were not totally impressed, as the island definitely breathes …
Apr 02 2023
Crossing the International Dateline
Crossing the International Dateline is getting more attention lately as an imaginary north-south line across the globe that gives us our global time schedules. Not until the 1884 ratification did this become a global agreement between states and nations. The IDL is roughly based on the meridian of 180° longitude, roughly down the middle of the Pacific …
Jan 30 2020
Two Weeks in Portugal’s Algarve Region
It was early January 2020 – Covid 19 was just an inch away from stopping the world in its travel tracks – and we were in the Netherlands visiting our family and being that it was winter, it was very cold, dreary and damp. Typical weather for Holland in the early days of the year. …
May 07 2016
Yee-hah, destination Florida!
May 7 – Yee-hah, destination Florida! No, I don’t want to move back, but yes I am looking forward to staying in one spot for a few weeks. On the way back we stopped over in Savannah to see my son Drew, had lunch with him, he gave me a lovely photo album for Mothers Day …
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