“Won’t you get tired of good weather all the time?” That was my friend Doyle, an Oregon native like me – and like me, a man of webbed feet and hooded raincoats.
Ten Thousand Days of Rain
27 Wednesday Feb 2013
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An Apartment in Puerto Vallarta
31 Wednesday Oct 2012
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We have returned from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. It was hot and muggy, but the alternative was rain in Portland. In Portland when it rains, there’s no escaping the wet. In Puerto Vallarta when it gets hot, there’s always the Pacific. And the margaritas…
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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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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?
