Sunday, Oct 13th, Porto, Portugal

Greetings!

There's a typhoon in Asia, and it's raining almost everywhere else on Earth today.  From Great Britain to China, Iceland to South Africa, all over South America, India to Australia.  A cold front is blanketing Idaho to Minnesota, and the East coast is flooding all the way to Florida.  The only dry, hot, and windy spot on the planet today seems to be California.

We're wet here too.  Except for a short time out to walk to an art museum, we've been inside reading or catching up on a restless night last night.  Early this morning, we bailed on a train trip to to Douro Valley region where we were planning on visiting some farms where port wine is grown.  It was going to end up being an all-around wet experience.

So if you're wondering what these two photos in the post are, here's the answer.  The top one is a duct-taped knight on a horse with lots of modern day objects, and the bottom is the front half of a wooden paddling vessel brought back from a voyage to Japan in the late 1700s.

To see the few other photos taken today, click on: Sunday, Oct 13th, Porto, Portugal.