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🇵🇹 Exploring Aveiro: The Venice(ish) of Portugal
Jaunty Euro scarf – ✅. Ready for a day of exploring Aveiro and Porto! A Day in Aviero Our guide, Susana, picked us up at our hotel, and we headed south to the coastal town…
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Lens-Artists Challenge #336 – Only One Picture
This is my first entry into the Lens-Artists Challenge, a weekly photography challenge on WordPress. This week’s challenge, as set forth by Leya, is to use only ONE picture. One that you find important, meaningful…
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🇵🇹 Porto’s Lello Bookstore & a Monastic Liquor I Finally Tracked Down
Livraria Lello Walked (uphill – it’s leg day in Porto) to explore the famous Livraria Lello bookstore today, which is supposed to be the most beautiful bookstore in the world. And allegedly, was an inspiration…
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🇵🇹 A Memorable Day in Douro Valley: Wine Tasting, History, and Culture
Looooonnnng day. Up before the sun this am for a wine tasting and cutural tour of the Douro River Valley. Had coffee with a Tylenol chaser for breakfast. My creaky middle-age hips are screaming at…
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🇵🇹 Exploring Porto: An Uphill Culinary Adventure
Culinary tour of Porto this morning. Our guide for the day, Marina, was outstanding. So friendly and engaging. And super knowledgeable. (If you are ever in Porto and need a guide, I highly recommend sending…
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🇵🇹 Exploring Porto: Our Jet Lagged Adventure
Ken and I just returned from a 2-week trip to Portugal and Spain. I’m in the throes of re-entry, but as I take breaks from laundry and going through two weeks of mail, I’ll get…
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The Highlight Real: How Big is America?
Often when we travel, we have an experience or interaction (good or bad) that just sticks with us. And because I keep my travelogues to 2,000 characters or less, I don’t have room to tell…
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Whew! I’m All Caught Up (for now)
I’ve finally caught up to myself with old travel posts. I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoy writing them. Stay tuned for new posts from Portugal and Spain! 🇵🇹 🇪🇸 Saúde…
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🇺🇸 A Day in Coeur d’Alene: From Sticky Rolls to Stunning Sunsets
A Day in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho today. Stopped for breakfast at a Guy Fieri anointed diner called, Jimmy’s Down the Street. Ordered the sausage gravy and biscuits. Mistake. Biscuits and gravy are the domain of…
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🇺🇸 Whitefish to Coeur d’Alene: Turquoise & My 50th State
It was 46 degrees and raining yesterday in Whitefish, so I vetoed our hike. Mountain Ken said we’d warm up once we got going, but I reminded him I would be miserable. Ergo, HE would…
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🇺🇸 Fun in Whitefish: Hiking, Huckleberries and Antique Finds
We’re antiquing and (not) hiking in Whitefish today. Well, not hiking day for me. Ken got up early this am to go scale a mountain. Happy Trails, Ken! I hiked all the way to the…
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🇺🇸 Hiking in Glacier National Park: Really Good Hiking Boots Can’t Save You from Being a Klutz
Hiking Day! Alarm set for 4:45am so we could get to Glacier National Park for sunrise. So, naturally, I was up at 2:30am, worrying about bears. Going to the Sun (GTTS) Road in GNP is…