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 …
Category: moving
The Mysteries of the Storage Locker
We've been back in the States for a couple of weeks now, visiting Florida and now Maryland for our perfect granddaughter's birthday. While we were here, we decided to deal with the elephant in the room: The Storage Locker. When we started this lifestyle (as our Spanish tutor calls it, well really she says estilo …
Here We Go Again
I sit here writing this in the home of my wonderful mother-in-law (yes, I can always use more points for excellent sucking up) where we are once again leaving the Saab. The next leg of our adventure awaits. You probably know the plan: Copenhagen to Berlin to Valencia to Paris to Valencia to Kenya to …
Two years and counting
A recap of our first two years on the road.
Not the Most Enjoyable Trip
This weekend we moved from Chicago – our home for the last six weeks – to Washington – our home for the next four months. Sue and I usually love a good, long summer drive. Play suitcase tetras with our stuff to get everything in the less than spacious Saab trunk, slather on the sunscreen, …
The home stretch
We are into the home stretch and somewhat surprisingly, we are thinking that the packing is nearly done. We are down to just a few kitchen things that we still need, our linens and a few clothes that are all going into the suitcases. We have decided to finish packing by Tuesday the 20th, and …
Seeing Family
Happy July 4th to all our American readers. As Sue said in the last post, we wrapped up our eating fest in Chicago and headed down to Houston to visit Sue’s middle brother. Our three-hour flight to Houston took us a couple of hours longer than expected because we sat on the runway in Chicago …
I know it has been a while
We are sorry that we haven't written anything in quite a while. We have been wrapped up in lots of changes on the home front, while trying to just get through the pandemic. Let me give you a quick recap of the last few months. As I mentioned in our last post, we found a …
