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Ten Thousand Days of Rain

27 Wednesday Feb 2013

Posted by Tom in Sentiments, Travel

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expatriot, rain, travel

photo of Oregon rain

“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.

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An Apartment in Puerto Vallarta

31 Wednesday Oct 2012

Posted by Tom in Accommodations

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expat, expatriot, Los Tules, Puerto Vallarta, travel

Photo of our apartment building

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

Posted by Tom in Sentiments

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expat, expat-almanac, expatriot, Mexico, Puerto Vallarta

Tripadvisor logo

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.

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Home Furnishings

08 Wednesday Aug 2012

Posted by Louise in Sentiments

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expat, expat-almanac, expatriot, travel

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. 

Ikea catalog cover.

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Life After Girona

09 Monday Jul 2012

Posted by Tom in Sentiments

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expat, expat-almanac, expatriot, Girona, ireland, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, travel

Question mark made from Jell-O

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.

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Serial Expat

26 Tuesday Jun 2012

Posted by Tom in Sentiments

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expat, expatriot, ireland, serial expat, travel

Graphic of Expat Cereal box

“Serial expat.” Isn’t that an intriguing term?

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After Spain — Ireland!

21 Thursday Jun 2012

Posted by Louise in Travel

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ex patriot, expat, expatriot, ireland, kinsale, 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?

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