Travels with Valerie

Many helpful drivers in Lisbon and Porto have made sure we understood the intense rivalry between Lisbon and Porto – both on the soccer field and in the tourism arena. And I am happy to report to you that – as much as we loved Lisbon – we are firmly on Team Porto. Porto is […]

We had three hours on the train and I planned to use that three hours to take a step back and try to assess any possible common denominator in what goes wrong in our travels and, while I’m sure we are all assuming it is Ron, a frank assessment seems to indicate that the real […]

It’s time to pack up here in Lisbon. Tomorrow, we take a train 3 hours north to Porto. Porto is where we meet up with Road Scholar – Beyond the Vineyards. We cover a lot of smaller towns and sites – things that Ron and I can’t possibly get to via train. We are doing: […]

We had so much fun with Richard and Lisa that we convinced them to stay one more day with us in Lisbon and take advantage of our third touring day with Lisbon Riders. And as they have never traveled with us before, they agreed, and now that they have gotten away from us into another […]