São Miguel seems as familiar as it seems strange and new. The island has all of the modern conveniences of Europe and all of the farms and fields of a paragliding destination. We launch and land among the cows and we find food on streets named “Rua dos Santos” and such. I look just like people here. Sati might have a hard time finding me in crowd. Good thing there are no crowds. Anywhere.
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Uncategorized Off to the Mid-Atlantic
It is interesting telling people that Melody and I are headed to the Azores this summer. Most people either look at me quizzically and say “where?” or less often say some thing along the lines of “Wow, that’s a far from everything place.”
The Azores are a group of nine islands in the Mid-Atlantic. They lie approximately 2500 miles from Boston and 1000 miles from mainland Portugal. The Azores are part of Portugal and are considered the farthest flung outpost in Europe. We are headed for the largest of the islands, Sao Miguel where we’ve arranged to live in a farmhouse in the rural community of Lagoa for the next two months.