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Serial Expat
26 Tuesday Jun 2012
Posted in Sentiments
Monthly Archives: June 2012
After Spain — Ireland!
21 Thursday Jun 2012
Posted in Travel
You may notice that all is sweetness and light with us, except for the visa thing. The idea of amassing a bale of documents and flying down to San Francisco to present them in person, at $300 per round trip (each), then doing the same a month later to pick up the visa stamp…well, life is too short. We love going to San Francisco, but document digging we hate. All this to stay ninety days or more in Spain?
Baby steps
20 Wednesday Jun 2012
Posted in Sentiments
Clothes streamed from within my closet like dirt from under a digging dog. I was piling up Goodwill donations, one of the baby steps that we’re taking in preparation for our nomadic lifestyle to come.
Stumbling upon Girona at TBEX in Keystone, Colorado
18 Monday Jun 2012
Posted in Travel
At last we can breathe again. It was invigorating to spend the weekend at 9000 feet in the Rocky Mountains, but the altitude made our lungs feel like very small party balloons, not quite big enough to get air. Keystone, a ski resort in winter, expects this: the shops sell $4 canisters of oxygen to help out.
Humbled by bloggers
18 Monday Jun 2012
Posted in Travel
Colorado mountains at 11,444 feet. (Click to enlarge)
We’ve just returned from the TBEX conference for travel bloggers held in Keystone, Colorado. We were humbled by the amassed talent there (eight hundred bloggers!) and have much to learn, but that’s all part of the adventure. We’ve posted some photos here.
A place to glamp
07 Thursday Jun 2012
Posted in Accommodations
This gallery contains 6 photos.
Found: A Place to Glamp! Which is, of course, glamorous camping, and a bit of a joke in this case. …
The Spanish visa
05 Tuesday Jun 2012
Posted in Accommodations
If we intend to stay in Spain for more than ninety days, we’ll need visas. My investigation began today with a visit to The Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation website which, among other things, is charged with “promoting Spain’s economic, cultural and scientific relations.”
These are the people who will issue our visas and they’re interested in promoting a cultural (and economic) relationship with us. Cooperation! It’s right there in the title.
Slowly getting less panicky….
04 Monday Jun 2012
Posted in Sentiments
We’ve been tossing this ex-pat idea around for a few years. By which I mean living in another country for many months in a row, or maybe forever. Forever is too bewildering to tackle, but even the thought of a few months abroad used to make us panic a bit.
Why Girona? (the video)
01 Friday Jun 2012
Posted in Travel
If the tapas, the cava, the weather, and the intrigue don’t charm you, the beauty of the place certainly will. Here’s my two minute tour of Girona:
The Expat Almanac 