Four Years and Counting

On July 26, 2025July 27, 2025 By StevenIn airbnb, Argentina, Barcelona, Belgium, Berlin, Brazil, buenos Aires, Burgundy, CDMX, chicago, Chile, Clamecy, costa rica, Denmark, driving, Finland, Florida, France, Guadalajara, Helsinki, hiking, Iceland, Istanbul, italy, Kenya, living abroad, london, Mendoza, Mexico, Morocco, museums, new york, Nice, Panama City, Paris, rome, Santiago, South America, Svalbard, Sweden, Travel, Uncategorized, Ushuaia, Valencia, washington DC1 Comment

It has now been exactly four years since we kicked off The Happy Idiots tour by traveling to catsit for Seuss in Paris. Wow, time flies when you are having fun. We have done so much, seen so many incredible places , learned a few (or maybe a lot) of lessons the hard way and …

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Two years and counting

On July 21, 2023July 21, 2023 By StevenIn airbnb, Argentina, art, Barcelona, Baseball, Belgium, Brazil, buenos Aires, Burgundy, CDMX, chicago, Chile, Clamecy, driving, Florida, France, Guadalajara, hiking, Istanbul, italy, living abroad, london, Mexico, Morocco, moving, Nice, Paris, Patagonia, Relationships, rome, Santiago, South America, Travel, Uncategorized, washington DC3 Comments

A recap of our first two years on the road.

Destination Anywhere

On April 24, 2022 By StevenIn airbnb, Belgium, italy, living abroad, Relationships, rome, Travel, Uncategorized1 Comment

Oh, the best laid plans. We had everything in place; flights, hotels, AirBnBs, tours, SIM cards – yes everything. Then Sue tested positive for COVID. Ugh! (If I actually had Covid, it was asymptomatic. I feel fine.) Time to pivot. We couldn’t stay in the place in Rome, so we did what we do best. …

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Hellos and Goodbyes

On April 20, 2022 By SusanIn airbnb, italy, living abroad, Relationships, rome, Travel1 Comment

As we approach the end of our wonderful stay in Roma, we are faced with more goodbyes. Today, we said arrivederci (or ciao) to our trainer, Angelo, (from Rabbit Sport Center) who not only tortured us with full-body exercises for our aging carcasses, but invited us out for coffee with his partner, Meg. Not only …

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Easter in Rome

On April 17, 2022 By StevenIn airbnb, living abroad, Relationships, rome, Travel, Uncategorized2 Comments

This is our last weekend in Rome, and the weather is warming up. We decided to try and avoid the center of Rome as we thought it would be mobbed with tourists here for Easter (which in Italy is a four-day weekend). For Saturday, we set our sights on visiting the Non-Catholic Cemetery of Rome …

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Just the Bare Bones of Our Weekend

On April 2, 2022 By StevenIn airbnb, italy, living abroad, Relationships, rome, Travel, Uncategorized2 Comments

This weekend is going to be a calm and quiet one, no 11 trains, no traveling halfway across the country to go the ballet, not even a quick trip to Florence to see more of the sights. Wednesday as we were discussing our weekend plans, Sue stumbled onto a place called Jerry Thomas, that describes …

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Eleven-train weekend

On March 28, 2022 By SusanIn italy, rome, Travel5 Comments

Yes, that's right: 11 trains. Sounds a bit overboard (off the rails?)(UGH! She is stealing my jokes!), but it just kind of happened that way. We started out Friday taking a cooking class about 25 minutes (by train) outside of Rome. That required getting to Roma Termini by Metro and then taking the regional train …

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Join a Gym …

On March 18, 2022 By SusanIn living abroad, rome, Uncategorized1 Comment

Well, it doesn't have to be a gym, but get yourself into the world of people who really live where you're hanging out. In Guadalajara, we did yoga and learned some Spanish along the way. We also learned that Mexicans are helpful and friendly. Monday, we signed up at a gym, Rabbit Sport Center, (and, …

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The first four days in Roma

On March 12, 2022 By StevenIn airbnb, art, italy, Relationships, rome, Travel, Uncategorized1 Comment

This week has been a bit of a whirlwind, and this portion of the blog is going to cover only Sunday to Thursday. I promise will write more tomorrow or Monday about the rest of the week. I am also only including a few photos. Our amateur photos of Vatican do not do the the …

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Doing It On The Road

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