As for Christin, she met a stranger sitting next to her on an airplane when she was flying between Chicago and Frankfurt. I think my enthusiasm for my new country of abode set her imagination racing and sparked a flame in her heart for adventure and a notion of a romantic existence. After showing her my photos (on my laptop) of my ruin in the countryside that I was renovating and the stunning beaches where I surfed by my lonely self and showing her adventure pictures of me blazing new routes in the wilds of Portugal by Jeep, I think she was hooked.
Let’s just say one year later she was staying with me in the caravan helping to renovate the country cottage and learning to surf and map reading when we took off in the Portuguese Jeep (UMM) to make our own route through the unmapped interior. After a two week offroad holiday adventure she was here permanently and a few months later our first son was born. Our lives were changed forever and we have been together seventeen years already. Our second son was born 8 years after the first one and completed our family of four. They say time goes quickly when you are enjoying yourself. Our time hear has gone so fast, it feels like only a few weeks we have known one another.