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Europe 2025 – Lisbon, Part Three
April 1-3 We were up and out early for our planned day trip to Sintra through Viator on their Sintra Highlights and Pena Palace Full-Day Tour. Joanna and I visited this area in 2014 but did not take a tour. Instead, we drove our car out to the coast and parked near the lighthouse there […]
Europe 2025 – Lisbon, Part Two
April 1-3 The walk back to the apartment with Jessica, Gemma, Kim and Joanna took most of the rest of the afternoon due to the distance involved and the need to do some extensive window shopping along the way. Partway back we stropped in the Santa Maria Major neighborhood on its bustling pedestrian Augusta Street […]
Europe 2025 – Lisbon, Part One
April 1-3 Our drive to Lisbon today would take under four hours of driving time and we decided, based on a Rick Steves recommendation, to make a stop in Coimbra which was about halfway in the journey. To accomplish this easily Marty booked us a ride with a driver that would take us to Coimbra, […]
Europe 2025 Porto, Part Three
March 26-30 Jessica felt much better the next day and was able to join us as we set out on a Hop on Hop Off bus experience that would lead to a day of fun and adventure. Our first stop would be across the river in the suburb known as the Lodges of Gaia. In […]
Europe 2025 Porto, Part Two
March 26-30 That night Jessica got hit with a nasty stomach bug that would keep her up all night and put her out of service for the next day and part of the one afterwards. Kris also felt a little under the weather and decided to stay close to the apartment and hope to recover […]
Europe 2025 Porto, Part One
March 26-30 Last summer Jessica and Kris received an invitation from their friend Meg for her wedding which was scheduled to take place at the end of April in a small-town Portugal, about two hours east of Lisbon. It was soon decided that we, along with Kim and Marty, would join them and that we […]
Paso Robles and Yosemite 2025, Part Five
February 3-5, 25- 28, 2025 Finished with lunch, a group of us hopped back on the shuttle bus to head the short distance to the Ahwahnee Hotel for a drink at its bar, the one we’ve come to know so well. We had thought about dining there one of the nights in its famous and […]
Paso Robles and Yosemite 2025, Part Four
February 3-5, 25- 28, 2025 Three weeks after our return from Oakland and Paso Robles we made plans to travel separately, Joanna to North Carolina to join her fellow book club members to celebrate the club’s 25th anniversary with a couple of in the mountains of North Carolina outside of Charlotte. In the meantime, I […]
Paso Robles and Yosemite 2025, Part Three
February 3-5, 25- 28, 2025 The rain finally stopped overnight and although it was quite chilly, not needing to rush back to Oakland Joanna and I finally got that bike ride it we’d been wanting to do. We managed to eke out 16 miles before time constraints, and the cold, made us turn around and […]
Paso Robles and Yosemite 2025, Part Two
February 3-5, 25- 28, 2025 With rain and cold forecast for the next morning we loitered in the room and then around noon got some coffee at a nearby Starbucks and headed west on Highway 46 over the Santa Lucia Coastal Mountains to the coast highway, then turned north at Cambria to make our way […]
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