Writing about world travel, personal anecdotes and family genealogy.

Porto

May 11, 2019

I was super excited to share a dorm room with Anna again and add another phase to our travel-based friendship. This would also mean that my entire Portugal trip was filled with loving friendship experiences. This was so unexpected. What a stark contrast from my experience in Spain.

My hostel was on a side street in a neighborhood a bit outside the center, up a hill.

To help you get up the hill, the tram runs on a single track.

Rickety tram passing by.

Getting closer to the city center.

Lisbon

May 9, 2019

My arrival in Lisbon started with a direct visit to the apartment where Anna, Alyssa, Tame and their two friends, Arminda & Will from London, were staying. I’ve known this group for something like 15 years. We had traveled previously to Vieques, Puerto Rico. I knew we were compatible travelers.

What the fuck? It took all of this for Congress to step up??? As in they could have started working towards solutions years ago?? And this isn’t some local or state-level only situation? Our politicians SUCK.

This is what I look like today in portrait mode. 🤩 Life in Vienna was rough for the first 3 months. The next 2 months got better. Now things are legitimately very good. This is the challenge I wanted and whelp, I got it!

Thank you to everyone sup

Making my way to Belgrade via Szeged, Hungary. The first building is the opera house from the end of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. #travel

A short Sunday trip to a forest 20 minutes north of Vienna, along one of the Danube offshoots.

Architectural highlights of Vienna, taken over the last few weeks.

20 minutes north of Vienna is the charming town of Klosterneuburg. Easy train trip with beautiful hiking and good Schweinrostbraten.

Was here a few weeks ago. This is not the view from the city center but from a bridge about a 15 walk from the center.

Lunch view. The building in the foreground was rebuilt by the Rockefeller Foundation in the 1930s. #history #archaeology #athens #greece

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