DEC 4, 2018 – Montgomery, AL On the advice of our campground host, as the street and neighborhood we’d be in, we did not walk the mile to the bus stop but called Uber to go downtown. We’d been told the Legacy Museum and National Memorial for Peace and Justice nearby were not to be […]
NOV 5, 2018 Maiden Voyage! Well…. finally… we are on the road. Thor Freedom Elite 24FE. 2019. We drove to Hadley, MA for a weekend visit. Now boondocking on our first night on the road, at a Pilot truck stop where we can park for free. Off to a Country Pride (oh no!) For food.
JULY 6, 2018 – Bordeaux Up for some breakfast and final clean up before meeting the taxi to the train station for our ride to Bordeaux, FR. It was a fairly short ride, about 45 min, to le Gare St Jean. Seems taxis don’t queue up in taxi stands here. The people queue
JUNE 22, 2018 – Castelsarrasin, FR June 21 was a travel day, as I flew first to Lisbon from the Azores, and then after many queues and misdirection, I made it to the flight to Bordeaux France. I met Anne Purvis there and we embarked on our adventure with a Tesla taxi ride into
JUNE 16, 2018 June 15 was a travel day, as we flew to San Miguel Island and the town of Ponta Delgada, in the archipelago, the Azores. San Miguel, as I believe the other islands are, is volcanic in origin with very steep hillsides and great mountainous scenery, with trees and fields and we think
xxx JUNE 10-13, 2018 June 10 Caminha is only an hour from Porto but we took the coastal route, turning toward the coast at every turn. We stopped shortly before getting to Caminha for some groceries and headed to our checkin point. It took a while to locate the pastry shop where we announced we
JUNE 6-8, 2018 June 7 6 June was a travel day that was part of our drive up the coast from Lagos. Our flat is just south of Porto in Madelena which is an easy bus or train ride from the old city. We were lucky to arrive with a car so that we could
JUNE 4-6, 2018 Time to depart Lagos. We had a lovely chat with our host Carla last night. She and her boyfriend helped us sort an itinerary up the west coast of Portugal to Porto with advice on where to stop and places to see. We rented a car on 4June and decided to stop
MAY 31, 2018 30 May was a travel day and we had a great train ride from Barcelona to Seville. Seems you can’t take a train from Spain to southern Portugal so we caught a bus in Seville and traveled on to Lagos, with a brief stop in Faro. Glad we decided to stay in
MAY 27, 2018 26May was a travel day from Avignon to Barcelona. It was a great all day train ride on the TGV, departing from the central station on Avignon. It was easy to get there on the bus and then we switched to the TGV train at the TGV Station outside of Avignon. We