Day Four! According to the map, day four is the longest day, with the most elevation. We were concerned that it might be too much for us, so I’d arranged for a local taxi to be “on call.” The path follows both trails and (extremely lightly travelled) roads. Road access meant that a taxi could…

By day three it started to feel like we’d found our groove. The skies got a bit cloudier, making walking a lot more comfortable. We were getting accustomed to the elevation. We downloaded a detailed GPS map, so we stopped worrying if we had lost the trail. We learned that a string of blue twine…

Since yesterday was much harder than we anticipated, we were certainly a bit trepidatious about today’s walk. We knew it would be longer…with a sizeable descent, big ascent, a huge descent to sea level, and then a 250 meter climb to our accommodation. We set out only to…immediately lose the trail. The markers seemed to…

Okay so a little background info. After Megan and I hiked the Nakasendou route in Japan, we planned another hiking trip for…May 2020. I had found a five day route on Santa Maria Island in the Azores. Called Ilha a Pe, it’s more hut-to-hut than inn-to-inn. But you can pay extra to have them transport…

Hello from the Azores! So I haven’t been writing about this trip at all, despite the hiking element. But better late the never, right? Yesterday Megan and I flew to Corvo, the smallest and northernmost of the nine islands in the Azores. Population about 435. Here’s “baggage claim.” And the airport terminal. We are here…