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🇵🇹 ➡️ 🇪🇸 On the Move: From Porto to Seville
Travel day today. We’re moving from Porto to Seville. What is it about spending the day in a giant aluminum tube that makes you feel so gross? We’re on our way to Seville to meet our very good friends for a few days, in advance of a shooting trip, where Ken will be shooting, and…
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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 of Aveiro, which is billed as the Venice of Portugal. Turns out, thaaaaat’s a stretch. Aveiro is pretty, but I…
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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 for the some of the architectural elements in Harry Potter. Know this: to visit the bookstore, you must have a…
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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 me from all the hill-walking yesterday. Our guide today, Carlos, used to be an air traffic controller for the Portuguese…
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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 Marina a message.) Walked all the way across Portugal today. Not really, just feels that way. Quickly learned that the…
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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 started with trip updates. As much as I try, I cannot sleep on planes. Ditto, Ken. We always hope, but…
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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 the story then/there. Trying to come up with a name for this occasional feature wasn’t easy: Ken: You want to…
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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 the south. Not sure what I was thinking ordering it in Idaho. Tasted like peppery paste. Ordered one of their…
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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 be miserable. We’re heading to Coeur d’Alene later, and the last thing anyone needs is cranky me in the car.…
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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 patio of our little cabin, where I indulged in a cup of coffee, and my book. I wasn’t a total…
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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 supposed to be one of the most scenic drives in America. We drove most of it in the dark, attempting…
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🇺🇸 Road Trip from Havre to Whitefish, Montana
A road trip through the state of Montana (which, btw, is a big fucken state) through unexpected smoke, tiny towns, and the moment someone flipped the geography switch to: mountains. Driving through nothing, Day 2. Seriously. This state is never-ending. But – today’s nothing was covered in a layer of widespread smoke, apparently coming from…