Tag: life
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Graceland
If you were to take the state of Tennessee, spin it clockwise 90 degrees and squint, you’re looking at the basic size, shape, and orientation of Portugal. That thought experiment also puts Memphis (and Graceland, “thank you, thank you very much”) in the northwest corner, right on the Atlantic. That’s precisely where we are looking…
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New: Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
As we have settled into the first week of our latest Portuguese odyssey, I have been hemming and hawing whether I was even going to blog this particular adventure (and if you’ve ever hemmed and/or hawed at my age, you know the fall risk). Since my entire schtick is Stranger-in-a-Strange-Land/fish-out-of-water observations, I didn’t feel like…
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Comida e Bebida
If you know a little Spanish, you already know enough Portuguese to guess what this post is about (but as we learned yesterday, you can’t pronounce it). Without going all Anthony Bourdain on you, I absolutely agree that other cultures are best experienced through the stomach (and oftentimes the liver). Here are some examples from…
The Hillbilly Viking 