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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
That may be a bit of an exaggeration, since we haven't had much time to catch our breath for a very good reason: The Monday after we arrived, so did our friends Amy and Adam. They are scouting potential locations for longer stays and we did our best to convince them that Valencia would be …
We arrived one week ago today. It is the start of a one-year, and maybe longer, stay experiment, who knows. Last year we decided that we wanted to move to Valencia for a somewhat indeterminant amount of time. We tried to do this a couple of years ago, but the bureaucracy simply ground us down …
We were thrilled that, after years of discussion, we were able to take a vacation with our friends Mary Jo and Kevin. We arrived Sunday evening, one day after they did. They had already discovered the roof pool at our AirBnB and we unpacked and joined them. We stayed in Roma Norte, not too far …
Doing It On The Road 