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Continue reading →: In search of good measuresAs we acclimate to life in Portugal most things are easy, some things are hard. Like simply finding a tape measure. OK, so its going to be in centimeters. No worries. So are all of the dimensions on everything for which you’d need to measure. But just finding one proved…
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Continue reading →: Saying farewellIt’s not goodbye. It’s farewell. Goodbye is so final. Farewell is a wish for return. It’s not permanent. It’s a transition. A passing phase. A new beginning. And that’s what this is. It’s hard to imagine living in another country, as we sit here. Right here, right now. But that’s…
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Continue reading →: Breaking with routine(s)For about thirty/twenty five years (for me/Melissa), with the exception of vacations and holidays, we’ve done the same thing on Mondays. Go to work. That might have meant going to an airport to fly somewhere for a day or week or going into an office or going upstairs to a…
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Continue reading →: And We’re OffThis is the first of our planned to be weekly posts that we are calling “Sunday Journal”. This blog is more about our experiences, than about travel tips. So here we go… issue #1. Well, its here. After years of planning we are heading out to get moved into our…







