Category Trips
Europe 2025 – Alter Real and Comporta, Part One
April 4-6 We would leave Lisbon the next morning and journey not quite three hours for a two-night stay at Alter Real, part of the Hotel Vila Gale Collection. This part of the trip was behind the whole reason to begin with, that is for Jessica, Gemma and Kris to attend the wedding of their […]
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 […]
East Coast Fall 2024, Portales, Flagstaff, and Home
October27- 30, 2024 With a nearly ten-hour drive ahead of us we got an early start, and this time had smooth sailing all the way to Portales, where we’d spend two nights visiting with Kemet. We would stay at the Holiday Inn Express & Suites Portales, which was a Best Western the last time we […]
East Coast Fall 2024, Corpus Christi
October24- 26, 2024 Knowing we had a relatively simple six-hour drive from Lafayette to Corpus Christi and since it was a Friday, that Stephanie and Lee would be working that day, we had no need to rush out of town for the journey. So, we stopped in at Poupart’s again for some coffee to go, […]
East Coast Fall 2024, Lafayette
October18- 20, 2024 Our short four-hour drive to Lafayette went smoothly and we arrived at check-in time at Paz’s place Airbnb. We’ve had good luck with Airbnb in rarely having booking’s cancelled (only once before I memory) but this trip brought us two, the first in Amelia Island and now here in Lafayette. About a […]
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