Category: Travel

Algarve Casa Stephanie and Marcel

I left off with getting hit with a ball in Padel. That didn’t happen and Paige and I both really loved it almost more than pickleball ahem. We arrived at Stephanie and Marcel’s beautiful...

Peniche, Sintra and Lisbon

We headed out of Nazare Monday morning. The sea has calmed down, the winds slowed, but it was still very overcast.  We headed to the town of Peniche , which is a coastal Peninsula where...

Obidos and Fatima

After a quick breakfast this morning, we hopped in the car and drove to Obidos. Óbidos is another very ancient medieval town in Portugal that has a medieval wall and a castle. It was...

Nazare

We started the day with a quick look at the cathedral next to the hotel, Santa Marinha da Costa. We then drove into the town of Guimaraes and checked out the castle, the cathedrals,...

Braga and Guimarães

The rain clouds were hovering over us yesterday but as luck would have it we had an opening to explore Porto after we checked out of our hotel. We stopped at one of the...

Epic USA Road Trip 2024

8209 miles of total fun (most of the time hahahahaha)! Day 1 August 22:  Hendersonville, spent one night to cut down on drive to Nashville Quality Inn & Suites Hendersonville – Flat Rock We...

Epic (IKON) Ski Trip

Paige wanted to get back to skiing and I had a ton of United miles. I thought they would go a lot longer if we planned it all at once bumping from resort to...