Going back a few days to Lisbon: this was my third time visiting and Karen’s second (and our second together)–all three visits were in March, and it rained for pretty much the entire duration of my first two trips, so we were delighted to find nothing but sunny, clear skies here. One of the reasons […]
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Today was a long day–seven hours–on a train. One of the reasons Karen and I love to travel so much is there are lots of long stretches like this when you travel like we do, and they provide great opportunities to read. It used to be that we’d leave for a trip with a significant […]
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Today was another day that HT described as his “best day EVER!” on the “Big, Big, Big, Big Adventure.” (Although he did say his favorite thing overall was the “cave castle” in Sintra.) Besides, that, though, here was his favorite part of the trip: This afternoon, the four of us went out to the western […]
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We landed in Marrakesh, Morocco a couple of days ago via a flight from Seville. (We’ve told HT that the reason he has to give up his froggy backpack at the security checkpoint is so they can check to make sure no aliens are inside. That’s something he can process pretty well, but makes for […]
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Hi everyone, I’ll try to write more tonight, but am sharing a quick post now to say we made it safely to Morocco a couple of days ago. HT likes it here and it’s the same as anywhere else for CR. So far, the food has been wonderful and we’ve discovered the perfect way to […]
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We left Sintra today after a great couple of days exploring this historic town about 30 minutes outside of Lisbon. As you can see from the picture below, the entire place is gorgeous, which is why the whole town has been named a World Heritage Site. Because of it’s beauty and status, naturally there are […]
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Meant to add this picture at Big Ben with the other post. Here it is!
That’s how you say “good day” (or “good morning”) in Portuguese, and that’s what we had today. I’ll start by saying CR had the best day of all because he got to be strapped to his favorite person in the world all day, although the rest of us did really well too. It started right […]
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Karen and I have flown to Europe many times between the two of us, but CR wasn’t the only one having a new experience during our flight a couple days ago–we’ve always taken overnight flights, but this time we left Chicago in the morning and landed in London around 10:30pm. After customs, etc., that put […]
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When you and your spouse hear this several times a day, there’s maybe something to it. This isn’t a phrase we normally hear (at least not her,) so I’m guessing it must have something to do with the trip we’re taking. Tomorrow, we leave for London. We’ve been there a few times already. In fact, […]
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