Transporting Tripe to Lisbon

Now that we had spent nearly a week in Porto, we are making a run down to the Lisbon area to visit friends and family.  Usually I have taken the A1 freeway from Porto down to Lisbon, but the whole thing is a toll road.  So this time I decided to look at Google Maps and see if it could give me any alternatives.  Besides the normal A1, there is also a series of freeways that run closer to the coast and only have a partial toll along the way.  I also checked for a route with no tolls and Google gave me 3 different routes, but each would take nearly 5 1/2 hours, while the partial toll road would only take 3 hours.  I decided it was worth the partial toll to save over 2 hours on our trip.  The normal A1 toll down to Lisbon runs about $35, but the new route we took only came up to about $16, and the roads were all just as good as the A1.

Even though Porto and Lisbon are only 3 hours apart, there are some distinctive foods that aren't readily available in one city or the other, and we had been asked to bring some Broa bread and Porto Tripe with us to deliver to friends in Lisbon who were from Porto.  And this is how we ended up transporting tripe from Porto to Lisbon with us in the car.  Now I know what you're thinking by looking at this picture, but trust me, it's not what you think.  This is tripe, pork intestines filled with mashed up pork innards with other spices and fillings.  OK, so maybe it is what you were thinking it was.  To each his own, as long as they don't make me eat their own.