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A Culmination in Cape Town

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Well, it took me essentially 23 months, but I finally am finishing these Remote Year recaps with this Cape Town entry. Cape Town was country 12 of 12 of the Remote Year program, although I managed to tack on 7 additional countries during the year as well. The most common question us remotes get is "what was your favorite place" and that's actually quite hard to answer. That being said, Cape Town is up there. Cape Town is on the bottom west corner tip of Africa and is housed in the country of South Africa and it's a gorgeous beachside city on the coast. We lucked out and got to stay in Cape Town for 5 weeks to end our trip and I don't think there could have been a better place to cap off what has definitively become the best year of my life. Not only is Cape Town amazing in and of itself, there's so much to do and to see ! And we did it all.  Some quick things about South Africa and Cape Town: Despite the country having 11 (!!!) official languages, the primary
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Welcoming in the 2020 New Year in Valencia

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Ay Dios Mio, I have neglected this temporary travel blog far beyond what I ever imagined, but I am determined to finish my recap of my Remote Year from 2019-2020 and with only two countries left to cover, I might as well get on it, even though it's been more than a year and a half since I was in Valencia, Spain. When tourists think of Spain, they typically don't think about Valencia. They think about Barcelona or Madrid or perhaps they think about running with the bulls in Pamplona. For those in the know, maybe they think about Mallorca (Majorca), the beautiful Mediterranean Island where tennis superstar Rafa Nadal calls home. I, like most American tourists I assume, was not very familiar with Valencia prior to our landing there. I knew it was by the ocean and that it allegedly housed the Holy Grail, the one Indiana Jones allegedly found in The Last Crusade, but other than that, I basically just knew it was in Spain. I wound up liking Valencia quite a bit. I could have lived on
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