After a nice sleep-in from yesterday’s travels to Sevilla (remember, Sevilles are Cadillacs), today we journeyed to Fortaleza de Sagres on the Southwestern most point of Europe, otherwise known as the stepping stone to civilization as we know it in the Western Hemisphere. It is thought this is where folks like Vasco de Gama, Columbus, etc. learned navigation to spread disease and terror…..uhm, I mean, bring peace and tranquility to the savages of the new world. Some folks probably want to bring up slavery, treachery, corruption, disease, genocide and so forth. Me? I’m European through and through, so I call it progress and they should have armed themselves better. Besides, if not the Portuguese it would have been the Spanish or French – the food is better here, so celebrate the little things. Moving right along, here’s pics from the fort today:

Check it – Maggie tried to lure me into that damn alcove. She was hoping the fruit of knowledge would do it, but I’m content in my ignorance. Now if she’d had a beer….

All the water is crystal clear here – that’s the sea floor your seeing. It was like that at the beaches as well. No BP platforms around here, thank Neptune.

You could hear the sea at the bottom of this massive cavern – don’t lean over too far…

Maggie tried to convince me this sign said, “Devoted Husbands Must Leap to Their Deaths to Prove Their True Love After Signing the Appropriate Beneficiary Forms”

There was a chapel. This is as close as I could get before either I, or the structure, burst into flames.

Mags, still trying to convince me about that jumping to my death crap.

This gun was so old and deteriorated it looked like it was made out of wood.

These, however, looked like they’d still fire. Mags stole a case of dynamite from a nearby construction site and crammed it into one of them along with an old bowling ball. She was drawing a bead on a crab boat in the bay when the local constabularies thankfully intervened. She then ran into that little lookout alcove and tried to lure them in, but I had eaten the apple when she wasn’t looking. The law just decided we were more trouble than it was worth and left us to our own devices.

In all seriousness, imagine what it would have felt like getting onto a ship and setting out across the ocean trying to find the new world. Never mind the Vikings and Chinese had already done it – they’re a bunch of assholes anyway.