25 Tuesday Sep 2012
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Remember that Carly Simon song, “Anticipation”? It was cleverly used in a Heinz ketchup commercial in the late 1970s. It has been running through my head lately.
We…
Can never know about the days to come,
But…
We think about them anyway.
06 Thursday Sep 2012
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We talked this morning about the concept of “home.” If we’re to become serial expats, living here and there for three or six months at a time, will we feel homesickness? And if we feel it, for what home will we feel sick?
03 Monday Sep 2012
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Today I posted a quick note on the Puerto Vallarta Forum at Trip Advisor.com. It was just a hello, a brief self-introduction. I announced that we are about to become serial expats and that we’re considering the Mexican Pacific coast for next winter.
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.
09 Monday Jul 2012
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We’ve been discussing Life After Girona lately. Ireland? Italy? Switzerland?
Or, maybe, no plans at all. Perhaps we’ll wait until the last minute – the 88th day in Girona? – before we decide where to go next.
26 Tuesday Jun 2012
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20 Wednesday Jun 2012
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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.
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.
23 Wednesday May 2012
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Our apartment lease is up March 31, 2013. We haven’t made a wet-our-pinkies-and-shake commitment yet, but we have begun research into becoming expatriates: living out of suitcases, borrowing lifestyles, and chasing dreams.
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