Our departure from the U.S. this time included closing the book on one part of our life that has been there since we met. In 2009, long before I met Sue, I bought a very shiny, dark red Saab 93 convertible. It was first my, then our go to car. Sue had a very sensible …
Summer Sped By
OK, I admit that I did have a bit of time in which I could have been writing a blog, but we've just been living summer life. An uneventful drive from Chicago to Maryland kicked off the final segment of our U.S. tour before we return to Valencia. We took two days for the drive, …
Summer: June and July
Sorry, we've been distracted by friend visits and family matters, but have been in Chicago for a while, with a pit stop in New York. We're in the States for the summer, but need to catch you up on June and July. So, after Steven's birthday, it was my turn. I got a little distracted …
Birthday Time!
Last weekend was Steven's birthday. He likes to downplay it, so we only spent a few days celebrating (totally Sue's choice, I would have just ignored it). We wanted to get together a few of people we met at the wine tasting. In trying to accommodate the other two couples, we ended up with a …
We’ve Been Here A Month So …
Time for a Day Trip While it wasn't a three-day weekend in Spain, it was a three-day weekend for Steven. Facing three whole days with no plans, I quickly came up with a few options for a day out of town. Within an hour or so of here, there are several atmospheric towns with hiking. …
Wine, Walk and Cannons
The weekend came a day early for us. Stephanie—(quick digression, you see that "dash" just to the left? Sue will tell you that it is an em dash, (I will tell you that because it is; this – is an en dash and this - is a hyphen) and I never never never use them …
Hosting a Friend in Valencia
We don't collect a lot of souvenirs. Really just fridge magnets. I sometimes wonder what the total weight of our fridge magnets is, but we buy them because individually they are light and small. This is the long way around to saying that what we do collect is people — friends. On our fraught trip …
Wow is it an Adjustment!
Don't get me wrong, we love it here (of course we're still in the honeymoon phase), but sometimes, at the end of the day, our brains hurt. So many things are just different enough, and I'm not even talking about the language—I'll get to that later. Some things are common whenever you move, wherever you …
A Whole Week in a Few Paragraphs
One of our friends asked ChatGPT (or a similar tool) to describe our blog. Apparently it said that we were slow travelers. I took that to mean that we stayed in places for a relatively long time and became comfortable in those places (to my family members who are no doubt thinking that it probably …
Weekend Wanderings
Those of you who read the blog know that we are partial to what we call Death Marches—walks of at least 10 miles. These were suspended for a time, but we're now easing back into them. Since we had just arrived in Valencia and had a busy week with friends, we didn't have time to …
