Sailing Positive Waves

I want to do more than photo dump three months worth of summer in one post, but that's pretty hard. We arrived in Horta on the island of Faial in the Azorean archipelago toward the end of June. We were trying to beat a storm into port, which we did, thankfully, but that meant our first couple days in port were very windy and rainy. Not ideal for recuperating after a rough passage.  After the bad weather passed, it was time to explore Faial. We had about three weeks or so before Hans and the kids flew to the States--Hans to work and the kids to visit grandparents and go to camp. We spent a couple weeks in Faial, a few days in Terceira, and the rest of the time in Sao Miguel tying up lose ends before the big summer trip. Faial and Terceira were definitely my favorite islands in the Azores. They're more remote, so harder to get to and thus smaller populations and more rural. The scenery is just spectacular. It's hard to find enough superlatives to describe the Azores. After a