I am surrounded by wonderful nature looking at the ocean and keep asking myself this question. I am still convinced that we are heading in the right direction: to Portugal and to a new sustainable life. But are we travelling fast enough?

We started to contact eco villages in Portugal, and they are responding. If we want, we can begin to work on an eco-farm as soon as possible. But instead of going there directly, we let ourselves be distracted by the Pyrenees and the Atlantic ocean. We use our pets as an excuse. They get stressed by long rides with the truck as do we. Even short trips of 100 kilometres can be very stressful in the heat of Spain in summer. We are telling ourselves that we should enjoy the travel because we won’t have one for quite some time. I guess, we have to live with this ambiguity until we will arrive in Portugal – in three weeks or so…