Lower spine image I have a life-long** strategy for making decisions. That is to ask myself what decision sets me up for the best chance...

Say what?? PART 1 – USA Sometime after COVID is, I think, when I first started noticing that I was having nagging pain in my lower back....

There she is The 43 rd Faro Concentratao Motorcycle Rally just concluded. I was surprised at the size and scope of the event. I also...

Have you ever thought about where they get salt? Probably you have a little bit. Here in southern Portugal you can pretty easily see salt...

Eddie and Shadow back in the day. On the bed, their rightful place. I wrote this initially for a different purpose than our blog....

I’d feel better if we were facing space aliens. Will this be the last REAL celebration of “Independence Day”? I mean, July 4, 1776...

When we last visited our slightly less than intrepid couple (us), they had been to a festival that turned out to not be as expected with...

I've been having lower back pain for over a year. With my ever worsening ability to gauge how much time has passed, it could even be 2...

Faro to Carvoeiro Our Stuff:  We still don’t have our stuff! Waaaaa! I haven’t asked what’s going on because what good would it do?...

Greetings friends! Did you know that today is International Distinguished Gentleman's Ride Day? No? Where have YOU been? With me...

My buddy (Pampered Chef) Paula and her husband, Roy, visited us Friday and Saturday. I hadn’t had an opportunity to meet Roy before. The...

Olá pessoas! (Hello people). Tomorrow is one of modern Portugal’s biggest holidays. 25 de Abril. It was on this day in 1974 that...

Scott became aware of a fun-sounding festival in a town a little over an hour to the north east of us. It’s called the Smuggler’s...

It’s nearly April. Time is passing so quickly, it’s actually alarming to me. I had asked Scott to find a place where we could rent an...

We had our appointments with Portugal Immigration (AIMA) on Monday March 10th, 2025. It took about an hour and we had everything they...

I knew I was going to regret not writing anything for several days. Now I have to try to remember noteworthy happenings and roughly when...

This is inside the train station in Lisbon called Oriente, which is the closest stop to the airport. Wowzers, hunh? I actually wrote this...

Saudações e Cumprimentos meus amigos! I started a different post yesterday but got sidetracked and now I have just so much more to say...

Portugal is a country with great opportunities.  I live just a block from the southern terminus of the N2 Road and have learned that it...

A couple of days ago, Scott and I went to the MEO store at the mall as I was STILL having some issues with the phone I had to buy for...