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This is me, driving to FedEx our ballots! I actual

This is me, driving to FedEx our ballots! I actually cried filling mine out. This election is everything. #vote2020

Date night: burgers and ice cream on the beach ❤

Date night: burgers and ice cream on the beach ❤️

This is how we do lunch in the Carter household: #

This is how we do lunch in the Carter household: #organic #localfood #plantbased #almostvegan (except for the little bit of feta cheese). Thanks, @bioxabia! We couldn’t do this without you!

Our super wonderful organic market @bioxabia moved

Our super wonderful organic market @bioxabia moved to a fabulous new location (and expanded their hours!) by Antonio Mari’s whale sculpture. Mari is a well-know sculptor in Jávea who does remarkable public (and private) sculptures from iron. We couldn’t believe our luck today when we made our biweekly trip and saw Mari’s latest installation in progress! I think this one is my favorite so far. And he is such a friendly, down-to-earth, enthusiastic guy - he struck up a long conversation with Tom as he directed the installation process. #bioxàbia #antoniomari #shoplocal #publicart #sculptures

An auspicious beginning to fall and our sunrise hi

An auspicious beginning to fall and our sunrise hike through the pine forests down to Cala Sardinera, up to Cap Prim, down to Cala Barraca, then up, up, up the relentless hill towards home. One of those rare overcast, blustery mornings when the Mediterranean was masquerading as The Atlantic.

A swoop of swifts in the sunrise celebrating the l

A swoop of swifts in the sunrise celebrating the last of summer.

Tom finished our pool wall he designed from cement

Tom finished our pool wall he designed from cement blocks, and benches he made out of pallet wood. I love it! He did a remarkable job. We’ve added native plants and are encouraging jasmine to vine along the remaining wrought iron fence. And we stocked the openings of the cement blocks with rocks and shells and other found objects. Tom built several cairns (a nod to The Cairn Master @salvatoremferro who built us a lovely one when we moved made from stones of various locations meaningful to us ❤️ also included in this wall).

Mateo (photo credit @autologymotors) . . . #miso

Mateo (photo credit @autologymotors) .
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#misobrino
#meencantamissobrinos
#surferdude
#endlesssummer
#blueeyes
#sotbp

Happy belated 90th birthday to my father-in-law. H

Happy belated 90th birthday to my father-in-law. He's still one of THE COOLEST people I know: a poet, a playwright, a former merchant marine, a traveler, a wanderer, a thinker, an incessant reader, a rock musician, an activist. He's interested, humble, curious, funny, hip...the list just goes on. He was a part of the Beat Poet scene, and was the top poetry student in his Master's program at Duke. He loves art and opera and literature and French New Wave cinema and all kinds of music. Before Tom was twelve years old, his dad had taken him and his siblings on road trips through the entire lower 48. In an odd prescient twist of fate, at one point, many years ago, he and my dad were at the same kooky gathering of some crazy tent preacher revivalist. He's also a personal trainer and still lifts weights every day (as I write this, I'm wearing a pair of his old cut-offs!). He's ride or die the whole way. I love this guy and couldn't be prouder to be his daughter-in-law. He's living and thriving proof that age is truly just a number. Keep on showing them how it's done, John, with your customary style and grace. Love you! (And thanks, @prizmy66, for the great photo!)

My latest blog post: A (literal, in this case) bum

My latest blog post: A (literal, in this case) bump in the road and the subsequent silver lining: when watermelons, camping, family, and small towns combine for an epic trip. Link in my bio.
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#bumpintheroad
#smalltown
#cartrouble
#joyofdiscovery
#familycamping
#expatlife
#sotbp

Cat-sitting for these two little endearing freaky-

Cat-sitting for these two little endearing freaky-deaks! (Not pictures: their brother from another mother, Linus, who is busy trying to figure out how to escape.) 😻🙀

First day of Le Tour de France 🇫🇷 (Better la

First day of Le Tour de France 🇫🇷 (Better late than never!). One of my favorite days of the year. Although Mt. Ventoux is not on the course this year, our good friends, one of whom is one of Tom’s cycling buddies, bought Tom French wine with the same name and even annotated the bottles! Vive Le Tour and cheers to great friends! 🚴‍♀️ 🇫🇷 🥂

Morning snorkel at Cala de Llebeig.

Morning snorkel at Cala de Llebeig.

Summer breeze, makes me feel fine ☀️

Summer breeze, makes me feel fine ☀️

We ❤️ all critters, great and small. This morn

We ❤️ all critters, great and small. This morning, this little teensy dude was peering in our window. We have lizards all over our yard and they’re small but I’ve never seen one this tiny. Go little dude! You got this thing called life! 👊💪😊

Worth the wait: finally got a chance to celebrate

Worth the wait: finally got a chance to celebrate Tio Tomaco’s birthday with the fam. Enchiladas, carrot cake, singing, and, the proverbial icing on the cake (as the real stuff was pretty damn good too!): a birthday Bianchi coffee mug. ❤️🇺🇸🇪🇸

Happy birthday to someone who constantly says “Y

Happy birthday to someone who constantly says “YES!” to life; whose openness, curiosity, free-spiritedness, sense of adventure, and kindness inspires me anew each day. No matter where we are in this world, if I’m with you, I’m at home. Here’s to another year of going wherever the road takes you. I love you! ❤️

Spur of the moment hike from the port to Cabo San

Spur of the moment hike from the port to Cabo San Antonio. We were feeling pretty impressed with ourselves, especially as it was later than we usually go, and much hotter, until a group of about eight mountain bikers came bombing down the the narrow, rocky, mountain trail. It doesn’t feel treacherous hiking but I think flying downhill on a bike might be a different story. Super bummed my video of them didn’t turn out so you’ll have to settle for these instead. 😅😀
#cabosanantonio
#cabosanantoniojavea
#mountainbike
#hellno
#hikingisgoodenoughforme
#sotbp

You’ll just have to take my word for it: the Per

You’ll just have to take my word for it: the Perseids were on fire this morning. ☄️ 💫

I have a theory about T-shirts: one should never b

I have a theory about T-shirts: one should never buy one for oneself. It’s best when they just sort of appear in your life, whether through a friend, family member, or, as is often the case with me, as a found object. Case in point: I came upon this specimen abandoned at our camp site. Took it home, washed it and voila! Perfect color, perfect fit, and already broken in for maximum softness and comfort. And the icing on the cake? A nonsensical statement in English which we often see in European T-shirts.

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