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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.
Bag and Baggage
07 Friday Sep 2012
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Home is Where the Head Is
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?
An (Almost) Spiritual Welcome
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.
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.
Life After Girona
09 Monday Jul 2012
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expat, expat-almanac, expatriot, Girona, ireland, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, travel
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.
Serial Expat
26 Tuesday Jun 2012
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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?
Baby steps
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.
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.
Humbled by bloggers
18 Monday Jun 2012
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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.
The Expat Almanac 