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Continue reading →: Soaking at Ojo CalienteOur final stop on our two-week four corners Thanksgiving tour was at Ojo Caliente Resort and Spa in Northern New Mexico. About an hour north of Santa Fe and 60 miles south of the Colorado border, Ojo Caliente sits in a small valley on the Rio Ojo Caliente. The prehistoric…
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Continue reading →: Sometimes, You Just Gotta LaughIn these anxiety-inducing times, sometimes… you just gotta laugh. With wars raging on multiple fronts, natural disasters devastating parts of the country and the world, fear and mis and disinformation feeding anger it is important to take a break from reality and the news cycle and just laugh. Whether it…
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Continue reading →: Nature: the Great UnifierAs we’ve traveled across the USA and Canada this summer, we’ve found one thing true wherever we’ve gone and whatever we’ve seen. The beauty of nature draws us all in, no matter who we are. Whether we lean red, blue or purple; read the Bible, Koran or Torah; whether we…
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Continue reading →: 4th of July from Across the Northern BorderI’ve always loved the 4th of July and its rituals and traditions: Bar-B-Ques, fireworks, parades. As a young kid, we’d go down to the high school and see friends from school we hadn’t seen in what felt like forever but was, in fact, only about three weeks since school let…
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Continue reading →: Our Own Private IslandOn our recent trip to Nova Scotia, we arrived at our second stop on an island just off shore. We drove from the Digby area south through and past Kejimkujik National Park between what seemed like hundreds of lakes, large and small. The day’s promised rain had arrived and came…
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Continue reading →: Up Up and Away over Herdade do SobrosoAfter my father died (too early and too young) I found a list he’d made of things he wanted to do in his life. Many of them had been accomplished despite his untimely departure from this world. It seemed a good idea so I made one for myself. Several will…
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Continue reading →: Terramoto Taylor Takes LisbonA Swiftie I am not. Or I wasn’t anyway. I’m not about to start following her around the world and I don’t think the glitter make up would look good on me, though perhaps that one’s up for debate. However, we had the opportunity to see Taylor Swift in Lisbon…
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Continue reading →: Supper at Ceia in LisbonMany years ago, when we were leaving full-time work, a good friend and the CEO of one of the companies for which I worked gave us a going-away gift: a supper at Ceia. A friend and former customer of his had just visited Lisbon and had raved about it. We…
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Continue reading →: Celebrating Freedom and Democracy in PortugalOn April 25, 2024, Portugal celebrated freedom and the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution which overthrew the dictatorship under which the Portuguese had lived for almost half of the 20th century. Antonio de Oliveira Salazar (after whom J.K. Rowling named Salazar Slitherin in her Harry Potter series) came to…
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Continue reading →: A Shell with Shoes OnThe Oscars always inspire us to take in the new batch of movies. For the most part, we like them, with some exceptions. We thought Parasite was disturbing but I liked it more than not while my better half didn’t care for it at all. And Maestro was, well, in…
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