well I had no idea, good for you … what a smart and fun plan! Aus govt locked us in, no planes to catch!

Thanks. Travel during COVID was great — no crowds, super bargains. It was a six-week vacation requiring extensive planning and booking cancelable accommodations. Spain and Portugal have excellent vaccination rates and very low positive case rates — we felt safer there than in the USA.

So you’re travelling during covid … how did that happen?

So glad to know. We’re living in crazy times. I was concerned. Be well. See you around.

Doing great. Thanks for your concern. I was out of the country for six weeks (just returned a couple of days ago) on a wonderful vacation/tour of Spain and Portugal. There will be numerous posts with a Spanish and/or Portuguese flavor forthcoming. I wrote and posted this one while there, but I found posting via my phone to be too difficult of a task — so this was my one and only while on the road.