I’ve been so busy since arriving in San Juan almost three weeks ago that this post is a couple weeks overdue. Still, better late than never and we had no trouble settling into our San Juan casita that is our home for the month of March. The casita is in Ocean Park near Calle Loiza…
Category: Americas
Relaxation and Adventure in Puerto Rico
It’s been a while since my last post because we came back from Italy in November with no idea what 2022 would look like for us. We wanted to get back to international travel but with so much up in the air about Chad’s work (the film) and COVID, it was hard to figure out…
FAQ – What Did We Learn on Leg 7?
We will always look back fondly on our second U.S. leg, which included New Orleans, Palm Springs, and Sedona for our long stays. Here are five lessons we learned on Leg 7: Living Somewhere You’ve Always Wanted to Live is Worth It This leg, we prioritized month-long stays in two pricier locales because they were…
FAQ – How Did Our Numbers Work for Our Second U.S. Leg?
Our second U.S. leg (aka, Leg 7 of our travels) was just as fun and rewarding as the first. In fact, in some ways it was more so because we were able to have more family and friends visit us than ever before and were able to visit more family and friends as part of…
Sedona is a Special Place
We left Sedona more than a month ago, but I wanted to make sure to post a wrap up that includes all the reasons our time in Sedona (well, technically we stayed in the Village of Oak Creek) was so special to us. Here they are: My Family Came Not long after my “We’re Home”…
Sedona: We’re Home
We have been in Sedona for about a week and a half and they’ve been a long 10 days in the best possible way. We’d been to Sedona twice before and always loved it, and had wondered what it would be like to live here (even before we embarked on the full-time travel life). It…
I Turned 40! Or, How to Do Vegas Safely During a Pandemic
This blog has developed a recurring theme about where we are supposed to be at a given time versus where we’re able to be due to the pandemic. We had big plans to spend my 40th birthday in France, but of course, that proved impossible. So we thought a lot about where in the United…
California Love
California knows how to party. And although Chad and I aren’t really partiers, we had the best time during our month-plus in California. During our three weeks since my prior Palm Springs post, we enjoyed at least seven Cali cities and more social time than we’ve experienced in months (outdoors and physically distanced, of course,…
Palm Springs: We’re Home
Palm Springs was a bit of a wild card for us on this leg (Leg 7 if you’re counting) of our travels. When we booked our (nonrefundable) Airbnb for Palm Springs, all of California was still in COVID lockdown and we weren’t sure it would be better by February. We took the attitude that we…
Across Texas to Tucson
New Orleans and Palm Springs are directly connected by 1,780 miles of Interstate 10. That’s 25 hours of driving so we spent two nights in Texas on our way to Palm Springs. Our first stop was San Antonio, a city I’ve previously visited for a conference but that Chad had never been to before. We…