The Açorean Aventura

WARNING: If you are about to watch this video and do not already love me very much 

(unconditional love may be needed) then I would warn you that you may find this video 

1) too detailed 2) excessively long 3) boring

If you do love me, I believe it still may be a chosen few who are able to stick it out 

through to the end of this video.  I know this.  I understand. 

I will not try and trick you.  It is almost 17 minutes long...of reflection and story telling...

and if you know me at all, you know how those two things go for me.  

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Scroll down and click play if you would like to hear about my adventure 

in São Miguel, Açores this past weekend.  

The Açores are nine Portuguese islands way out in the Atlantic Ocean.  

For four days and five nights I stayed on the largest island, São Miguel.

Right here:

Initially, I was traveling to the island to experience the Festa de Santo Cristo for research I am doing with my Anthropology professor on socio-religious feasts.  Some days got mixed up and I ended up finding out the day before I left that Santo Cristo was taking place at the very moment and had been since the past weekend.  "Oh crap."  I would then arrive on the last day of the festival, but then have three full days of "fly by the seat of my pants-ness".  Which is something I am accustomed to; however, this time I was very much aware of the fact that I was traveling out into the middle of the ocean with no plan and no clear vision of why I was going anymore...

So I just took a deep breath and got on the plane.

"Boa sorte" with this video.

Tan