About three weeks ago I spent our 4-day weekend (which they refer to as “Puente” or bridge) in Lisboa, and the Costa de Caparica in Portugal. I went with 3 other guys, and I learned from the planning of that trip, or I should say “non-planning,” that it’s better to plan out vacations ahead of time. That being said, everything turned out fine; it was just more stressful than it needed to be. Once we got to the Coast all of the stress related to finding how to get to the coast melted away with that sweet ocean smell and the rhythm of the tide crashing in at night. During the trip, Chris taught the other three of us how to surf. At the outset, he told the three of us that surfing is like a
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