Saying goodbye to Turkey
I haven’t felt like posting recently. We’ve been taking it easy, savoring our last few weeks in Fethiye and doing our regular stuff. Going out to eat, shopping at the farmer’s market, exploring,...
View ArticleOur New House in Mexico
Last week we arrived safely in Lake Chapala. (Our internet was just connected today though, so that’s why you’ve had to wait a bit for this post.) Anyway, after a LONG month on the road, Mark, Scout...
View ArticleSo, How’s Lake Chapala Working Out?
We’ve been in the Lake Chapala area for a month now, and the verdict is in. We dig it! Before we arrived, we weren’t convinced this part of Mexico was right for us. This area is a gringo-retiree haven,...
View ArticleCost of Living at Lake Chapala, Mexico – October 2012
Many people are curious about the cost of our traveling lifestyle. Obviously that varies dramatically from places to place, but here’s what we spent to live in the Ribera del Pilar neighborhood of the...
View Article15 lessons I’ve learned traveling the world
A year and a half ago, my family and I sold our stuff, said goodbye to our conventional life in Vancouver, and hit the road. We bought a not-very-gently-used camper in Amsterdam and spent the next year...
View ArticleMexican school begins
Scout has survived her first two days of Mexican school. How did it go? Really well. But before I get into all that, let me say how much I LOVE the security at this school. The place is a fortress....
View ArticleMexican school: My kid’s as happy as a pig in slop.
Hopefully you’re not sick of hearing about the school yet. Here’s what’s new. So yesterday around 10:30 in the morning a gmail chat window pops open on my laptop. It’s from Scout. She tells me that the...
View ArticleLiving abroad can be a pain in the a$$: banking edition
Living a travel lifestyle is wonderful, but make no mistake. It’s not rainbows and unicorns all the time. One of our biggest fears is not being able to access our money. Well, yesterday that’s exactly...
View ArticleSo what’s next?
It’s difficult to believe we’ve been in Mexico six months already. Probably because we’ve spent most of that time hunched over our laptops in a work-induced haze or, in Scout’s case, going to school...
View ArticleSo, How Many Countries Have You Been To?
We get this question a lot. My first answer is…NOT ENOUGH. My second answer is…IT DEPENDS. Does Gibraltar count? How about Slovenia, which we drove through in a matter to hours en route from Italy to...
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