Of course I would be beyond excited to see you in Lisbon.

Seems to me there are two issues, the cashola and the worry of international travel.

The money first - this is totally no sweat for you. With your reputation here, you could make it happen with a few posts. Look, I crowdfunded a trip to the USA in 2010 when barely anyone had even heard of crowdfunding let alone crypto-currency. I think you should set your sights high and make it a trip to remember for both of you. I'm sure you've seen the Atlantic Ocean before, right? Well get this, in Portugal, it's the same ocean, just that the sun sets over it instead of rising. How neat is that?!?

Make a spending plan, make it expansive and luxurious, you both deserve it. Come up with an overall figure and shoot for it, we'll keep voting for your posts till you make it.

Now, to the nasty people who like to frighten us.

I know this is hard. Lots of people are working hard to make it hard, to make it a difficult decision whether to go on a beautiful holiday, to make Americans stay away from Europe, to make Europeans afraid of their own back yard. Those people suck.

But when I first went to the US, there were people around me who genuinely believed that "If you go to America, you will be shot or experience a shooting, because they all have guns there." or "If you go to NYC, even for a week, you will be mugged, at knifepoint if you're lucky"

Of course I can't make promises that nothing will happen in any particular city at any particular time, but most of the time, we're just living out our boring lives, laughing, loving, working away, just ordinary folks like you are.

I'm looking forward to seeing you there x