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Feb 24 1963 - Lancer's Winery tour

2/24/2011

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Drove to Azeitao to visit the Lancers Winery. Toured the winery and gardens and then tasted some 7 and 35 year old wines - really good Muscatel. They gave us each an ashtray and some little bottles of wine. Glad we got to see the winery since we had been planning on it since last summer. We were surprised to see that it was such a small winery and employed 120 people. Most of their business seems to be in making and exporting Lancers to the US.

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1962 was pivotal. This is the background:

It was a year colored by the Cuban Missile Crisis, an escalating involvement in Vietnam, the Berlin Wall and the Cold War with Russia, Civil Rights issues, a nascent space program, Nelson Mandela in prison, Betty Friedan's, The Feminist Mystique, the Beatles, Rolling Stones and the death of Marilyn Monroe.

In the face of all of this, Pat, Judy and I blithely took off for Europe with the intention of traveling through Europe and North Africa until our money ran out. We had a travel guide and a book titled Europe on $5.00 a Day. Since we had all read The Ugly American in preparation for the trip, we thought we were very smart to buy a used Volkswagen with Dutch license plates. We dubbed the car "Louie" since a cute guy from Switzerland named Louie had helped us acquire it.

There was no such thing as a cell phone, a computer, Twitter or Facebook. Our parents didn't hear from us for weeks on end. We wrote regularly, but letters took forever to deliver and we only vaguely knew where we would be next. It was a very cold winter and we followed the sun.

Feb 24 1963 - Lancer's Winery tour

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