Five best moments
- Reaching the top of Pico
- Sunset boat ride with Jill and my cousin
- Listening to Cory’s Shearwater
- Every sunset
- “Dead to me”
Five biggest surprises
- My cousin’s visit to introduce himself
- The food was even better than I remember
- The Azorean McMansions
- Ubiquity of mobile phones
- How, after 11 years, it still felt so familiar
Five favorite foods
- Boca negra (fish)
- Ameijoas (clams)
- Cornbread (nothing like the yellow US kind)
- Cheese (Lourais rules!)
- The ham and cheese sandwich I ate at the top of Pico
Five things I still want to do
- Whale and dolphin watching
- Caving
- Visit the other islands I still haven’t seen (Faial, Graciosa, Flores, Corvo, Santa Maria)
- Visit a cheese factory
- See the hydrangeas in full bloom