The choice between highway & country roads in Spain and Portugal is a choice of mountains or somewhat flatter with tunels. So I can choose looking around or clinging to the road by focusing on the center line (if I look up, I'll fall off the road as it curves again). Both countries have done a tremendous job in setting up the highway/byway networks that didn't exist here a few decades ago - Bravo! Yesterday was a really long awesome ride through the twisties south of Badajoz, Spain. Every once in a while I get to see something like this - coming up on Vila Velha de Ródão, Portugal...