Aisle space in a Portuguese supermarket dedicated to the following items:

• Butter: 58 feet
• Yogurt: 144 feet
• Olive oil: 65 feet
• Wine: 280 feet (with three kinds of (bad) California wines to choose from)
• Peanut butter: .5 — two kinds, and 3 euros for a small jar of Skippy
• Portuguese beer, like making love in a canoe, is fucking close to water

1. Find housesitter
2. Find passport
3. Find leftover Euro monopoly money from last trip
4. Buy decent California wine for Portuguese friends to try (since it’s largely unavailble in wine-producing Europe)
5. …and some Makers Mark for my father-in-law
6. Magazines for 12 hours of travel
7. Buy President Bush greeting cards from Archie McPhees
8. Print invitations to anniversary party, Portuguese edition
9. Wax and shine cheeks for kissing
10. Leave instructions for plant watering
11. Find electrical power plug converters for camera & laptop
12. Find guidebooks
13. Review conjugations of ser, estar, comer, dormir
14. 3 weeks of CDs
15. Review State Department’s Travel Advisory for Portugal