It’s been 4 weeks since our plane from Lisbon touched down in Newark, NJ. I had spent months of preparation to handle every teeny weeny detail, cuz that’s how I roll. After 2 ¾ years of residing in Setúbal, Portugal,…
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Stranger in a Familiar Land
Tagged with: culture shock, moving day, nostalgia, returning home, reunion
Posted in Leisure travel freedom, road trip, travel without stuff, writing
Posted in Leisure travel freedom, road trip, travel without stuff, writing
Time Ago
Living in Portugal, we’re not as intimately connected with the Hollywood scene as we used to be. We’d heard of the movie Green Book but didn’t really know much about it. Something about a white guy hired as driver for…
Tagged with: album, don shirley trio, jazz, LP, memories, movies, music, nostalgia, The Green Book, Waterboy, youth
Posted in Leisure travel freedom, Living abroad, writing
Posted in Leisure travel freedom, Living abroad, writing
You can’t go home again
I live in Portugal. An ocean away from my native country, customs and language. After a year, I was weary of not knowing anything – or that’s how I felt. I had acute sensations of separation, isolation and loneliness. I…
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Wayne
