Another “Out of the Box” Adventure!
Daughter Erin and I with the city of Barcelona behind us. I call this an “Out of the Box” Adventure because nowhere in my early life did I expect to be traveling to places like Germany and Cyprus and Paris and Scotland, etc. etc. Our European travels began because our daughter Sheila married a German man and she has lived in Europe ever since. It was with Sheila and Jörn’s encouragement and support that we made our first trip to Europe, almost 30 years ago. My latest adventure out of the United States was to Barcelona Spain and the Azores. Why the Azores? In the spring of 2022 my oldest daughter, Sheila and I traveled to Sweden to do an "Inn to Inn" hike in celebration of her turning 50 and my turning 70. But because of Covid, we were 51 and 71 when we finally accomplished it. As I planned for that trip it occurred to me that I needed to do a similar thing when each of my children turned 50. Scott turned 50 in 2023 and he and I did a white water c...