If I told you I was going on a trip to the Azores, would you give me a confused look? Would you ask me where it is? If the answer is yes, well then you’re not alone.  If my family wasn’t from there, I’d probably have to look it up myself! So what is this Azores place of which I speak?  The Azores are almost so unknown that they’re not on most world maps or globes (do people still have globes?) therefore I’m not really surprised when no one knows it. 

The Azores are a set of 9 volcanic islands about 1000 miles off the coast of Portugal. The islands are small.  The largest island, Sao Miguel, is about 300 square miles and has about 150,000 people.  The smallest island is Corvo which is 7 square miles and has about 500 people on it. So picture this, the smallest state in the US is Rhode Island which is about 1200 square miles and 1 million people. I’m from outside of Boston, so I’m used not used to small places!

My mom spent the first 10 years of her life there and it means so much to her. In 2007 I took a trip there with my parents, sister, and aunt and uncle. It was a wonderful trip, but we felt like we missed out on a lot and my mom wanted to take another trip with just the four of us. So in May my parents, my sister, and I hoped a 10:30 pm flight from Logan and flew 7 hours to the island of Terceira to begin our adventure!

Tomorrow I’ll begin to tell you my stories so stay tuned!