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Europe
Families, Technology, and Education… Internet-based Travel : Our 20th Anniversary
We were not the first to document travel on the internet, but we were among them -- plus our story had a twist. Twenty years ago we purchased a 34-foot motorhome (our first and only) and a dolly to haul our minivan and had arranged to rent our home for the ski season....
Mass Emigration from the U.S.?
What’s going on? Is America on the verge of mass emigration? What’s the deal with the never-ending cascade of get-away articles with tantalizing headlines like, “Best Place to Move Abroad,” “Retire Overseas at Half the Price,” “Top 10 Places to Live,” and the ever-enticing, “Most Livable Cities.” Do these articles signal a movement?
Slow Travel & Funky Apartments
The most (possibly only) tiresome part of slow travel is finding apartments. Sure, if we had unlimited resources or even just lots of money, it might be one of the more fun aspects. But for us, it usually involves a lot of searching and then hoping. Funky apartments...
Mexico
San Miguel de Allende, an Expat Mecca
The search for an expat life will take many people to world-famous San Miquel de Allende, Mexico. The spiritual center of Mexico and a UNESCO World Heritage city where thousands pilgrimage for Holy Week, San Miguel (SMA) is an expat’s mecca, complete with vortexes,...
Retiring Soon? Let’s Talk Mexico
“The U.S. retirement landscape is starting to look like a Charles Dickens novel.”
Mexico 2013, Travel through Quintana Roo, Yucatán, Oaxaca, Chiapas
The first week we rented a car to explore the Yucatan Peninsula.
Argentina
Learning Spanish, Making Friends
One goal of immersing ourselves in the Buenos Aires culture was to learn as much Spanish as possible. We began by placing a Craigslist ad for a Spanish tutor that received unexpectedly rich results. We narrowed the respondents down to four or five and then scheduled...
Hasta Luego Buenos Aires
On Wednesday June 15, 2011, we left Buenos Aires on one of the first flights to the United States out of the capital after the eruption of the Puyehue volcano in southern Chile spewed its ashes across Argentina. The winds played capricious games with itineraries...
The Disappeared in Argentina
Siempre con las madres Always with the mothers Every Thursday afternoon for more than 30 years, mothers and grandmothers of “the disappeared” (los desaparecidos) and their supporters have gathered and marched around Plaza de...