Missing the Journey
Maybe it’s the sense of motion. Maybe it’s the actual getting on a bus, or a plane, or a boat and heading off somewhere. It isn’t necessarily the destination, or what I do when I
Continue readingWarning: Don’t Do Anything Stupid
Since we started this adventure in October, Cindy and I have received a number of texts and emails regarding our personal safety in Mexico. I appreciate the concern, and I thought in light of a
Continue readingTime to Have No Clue
Well, that was it, the big news, the fabulous exposé. Job in place, job not in place. Income stream, no income stream. So be it. Without the mortgage payment back in the U.S. and with
Continue readingLet Me Be in Mexico When You Fire Me, Won’t You Please?
Imagine you are about to get fired. You can use different language if you want to: laid off, downsized, contract terminated or canceled, whatever phrase you choose, but you get the gist. One day you
Continue readingThings Begin
After a six-week absence, I returned to the United States for the holidays, and as I suspected when I left, things are not the same. I do not mean the colder weather, or the political
Continue readingTight Connection
As people travel around the world, horror stories abound of terrible layovers, lost baggage, and missed connections on other people’s domestic airlines. People say the same thing about U.S. carriers (yeah, that’s you Spirit and
Continue readingShed
It makes sense that anyone who travels for an extended period of time spends a lot of it decompressing. This could take the form of an extended, multi-day drunk, several consecutive days on the beach
Continue readingBuy Yourself (It’s Free)
When I first began this blog a little over a year-and-a-half ago, I did so with only vague notions of what I was doing. I remember well the day I set the thing up–it was
Continue readingSacrificios Humanos
December 3, 2013 started out as just a normal day. That was the problem. I needed something other than normal, and I knew it. Normal wasn’t working anymore. It hadn’t been working for a long,
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