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The Coolest House...EVER

September 2001 - November 2002, Baia Da Salga

I have finally decided to put up all my pictures in my photo folder called Salga. These are pretty much generic pictures that I took from my house in Salga or of my house. What a house this place was. As you can see from the pictures below, the house itself really isn't much. It's location, location, location. Actually, the house was pretty cool though. I mean, it's a former church. So that was kinda creepy and cool at the same time. But seriously, the view you'd get when you walked outside or just looked out the window - WOW! I still can remember when Angelo and I were searching for this place and what a scavenger hunt it was. All we had was an address and a city - information that is pretty much useless in the Azores. Using Angelo's limited Portuguese (at the time), we somehow made it to Sao Sebastiao (pronounced San Sebastian), which is the main city that Baia da Salga is in. From there, we found the road through the cow pastures (seriously) that led from the 'highway'. This road was just outta Star Wars and the Death Star trench scene. There are rock walls sometimes 6 feet high or more binding you in to the road (justbarely wide enough for two vehicles to slowly crawl by each other), and giving you many blind turns in which you hoped there wasn't a cow, a person, or a truck coming right for you. Many exciting drives were had on this scary-ass road. It even had a casualty (Byron's baby Pamela suffered at the hands of the road), but all was rewarded when you rounded the last turn. The 2nd picture from the right in the first row of pictures below was right after that last turn. That first time on that turn, Angelo and I both looked at each other and couldn't believe this was the right place. There were three houses total to pick from, and while one was a monster (the house across the street from mine), and the other (down by the cafe) was obviously occupied, the little yellow house on the cliff remained. And we eventually got it. Crazy. Looking back, it still blows my mind that I lived in this house. Something like this in the states would cost a buttload.

So anyways, here are pretty much all my pictures of my most amazing house in the Azores. Obviously there are pictures that are in the other sections that are of my house. But these are the lot that are in my Salga folder. Enjoy - I know I love to think about how amazing the Azores were!

A Colorful Sunset

Again

The Elevated Dining Area

That amazing last stretch to Salga

The Arch/Tunnel

The Storage and Laundry room (aka Spider heaven)

The Backyard

The Backyard and Laundry Line

View from Monster Big House

The House - Ain't she grand?

The Bathroom with the standing shower

The Oh-So-Wonderful Front Deck

Not our place - but one of the candidates we saw

Same place in Biscoitos - expensive but nice

The Altar or later known as the Big Bedroom

To drink a beer from this deck - heaven

Seriously

My amazing cliffs

More cliffs

One day we went down there after a storm

Byron braved the crashing waves

And was scared

And happy

Jason & Byron

Jason wasn't so sure

It was cool to go to the cliffs though

<sigh>

The Croquet Field

The Foyer

The Outside Porch/Dining Area

The Entry Area

The Front Door

A look at the front deck

One of the landscaped seats

Looking towards the swimming hole

A full moon morning

The garage area

Shimmering Salga Bay

Me asleep on the 4th of July, 2002

Thanks, Jason, for taking these

The Castle

Jason likes to read

Yes he does

The Kitchen

Didn't keep the living room like this - at all

Our house way in the distance

Looking towards Angra

The view at night to the swimming hole

Again

Playing video games

We did this a lot

A pano on a very clear day

A pano from the swimming hole

An unusually clear Pico during a red sunset

Split Rock and a Rainbow

The left side of...

....this Rainbow

The raised eating area

Sigh...My house again

Cows in Salga

That's the house up there

Full moon glory

My bedroom

Not our place - but one that we looked at - look at that door!

Split Rock from the front yard

Split Rock from Lava Mountain

My Most Infamous Split Rock picture

Split Rock from a very different angle

Stormy Split Rock action

Stormy Swimming Hole

The Swimming Hole

My House at night

Looking toward Porto Judeo

Looking back at my house

An unbelievably clear picture of Sao Jorge AND Pico

Split Rock

The Swimming Hole closer

Cows in the lower 40

A nice summer day at Baia da Salga

Slightly colorized view of my ocean

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