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We are here scoping out a place to spend next winter, after our European adventure. We hope to land here just about one year from now, in October 2013.
Hola de Puerto Vallarta, Mexico!
24 Wednesday Oct 2012
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A Day in Neo Greco Portland
08 Monday Oct 2012
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That’s me sipping a frappé – a Greek iced coffee.
It was really hard to decide between the diples, kataifi, koulourakia, and melomakarona, which had the added problem of sounding like a disease, so we just left all the pastries alone.
July in Greece: It’s Official!
01 Monday Oct 2012
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We’re popping open the champagne tonight because we reserved another apartment today – this one in Chania, on Crete, in Greece, for the month of July, 2013. No, we’ve never been there.
Bag and Baggage
07 Friday Sep 2012
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While Tom writes rhapsodic thoughts about the true meaning of home, I am pondering luggage. He is a poet; I am a Capricorn.
Home Furnishings
08 Wednesday Aug 2012
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The new Ikea catalog came today. This is always fun: looking at the new affordable household perker-uppers, fabrics, lamps, and storage gizmos. But this time it was all somebody else’s fantasy. We are here for eight more months and then comes the tag sale, the storage room, and the trip abroad with one suitcase.
After Spain — Ireland!
21 Thursday Jun 2012
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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?
Stumbling upon Girona at TBEX in Keystone, Colorado
18 Monday Jun 2012
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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.
A place to glamp
07 Thursday Jun 2012
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Found: A Place to Glamp! Which is, of course, glamorous camping, and a bit of a joke in this case. …
Slowly getting less panicky….
04 Monday Jun 2012
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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.
The Expat Almanac 