It was 6 a.m. 2 a.m. to my raddled East Coast brain and my husband, daughter and I were staggering through customs in the Ponta Delgada Airport, on the island of Sao Miguel, the largest of the nine islands that make up Portugal’s Azores archipelago.
Volcanic São Miguel, one of the nine islands in this Portuguese archipelago in the Mid-Atlantic, offers landscapes and experiences that are at once wild and serene.