“Go on and write me up for 125, Post my face, wanted dead or alive. Take my license, all that jive. I can’t drive 55” – Sammy Hagar This past March, we finally said goodbye to our trusty 2007 Toyota Yaris. The no-frills little car, which still had hand-crank roll-down […]
Expat Life
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At Christmas, all roads lead home. – Marjorie Holmes I didn’t fully appreciate the 12 Days of Christmas until I moved to Spain. What I knew about it mainly came from the song that detailed the expanding number of increasingly exotic gifts. But except for the more diligent Catholic relatives, […]
So why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. – […]
Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. — Sam Keen It’s early September. The days are still sunny and hot and the sea and the pools still warm, but now, when I awake around 7:00am, it’s dark outside. The solar lanterns we’ve hung around our casita are still glowing brightly. […]
“Once you begin watching spiders, you haven’t time for much else.” — E.B. White Now that it’s hot, each morning I get out of bed when the sun first peeks over the horizon to water our garden plants. I’m naturally a morning person so I find this task pleasant: walking […]
“I don’t want to go to Heaven. None of my friends are there.” — Oscar Wilde On some mornings, if it isn’t too cold, I head to the port for an open water swim. No matter the day, there is almost always a group of elderly Spanish women already in […]
Charm is a product of the unexpected. — Jose Marti Much of the charm and beauty of a given region lies in those small, out-of-the-way places that rarely appear in travel guides. Indeed, if you were to build a vacation around one of these spots, you’d likely be disappointed. Such […]
Don’t think. It complicates things. Just feel. And if it feels like home, then follow its path. — R.M. Drake The natural world plays a very big role in my feeling at home in the world. Getting to know the terrain, the vegetation, and the animals around me is critical […]
You can travel all around the world and back You can fly or sail or ride a railroad track But no matter where you go you’re gonna find That people have the same things on their minds Well, hello, hello brother, hello I said hello, hello, brother hello — Louis […]
“Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.” — Isaac Newton Sometime in March 2020, a week or so into our sheltering-in-place, people around the world began re-hanging Christmas […]