Home Sweet Furnished Rental Apartment
The pattern we expected to follow for housing was to take an Airbnb for a few weeks, and then spend those weeks apartment hunting for our longer term rental. I’ve read repeatedly that it’s a…
The Softest Of Landings
We chose to start our adventure in Oaxaca. Growing up in Southern California (Dorothy just a few miles from the border), Mexico was very much our backyard as kids. Having been to Oaxaca once before,…
Mexico City Map
Staying Connected
This one’s kinda easy and kinda hard. App-based solutions are the easy part. The rest of the world primarily uses Whatsapp for phone. There’s FaceTime and Zoom for seeing and talking. Various messaging apps. Facebook,…
Gear
I think we may have… over prepared. So. Much. Gear. The truth is, some of that kit will be lifesaving, and some of it will prove completely unnecessary. So rather than obsessively documenting everything we’re…
Managing Health Care
As we announced our plan to travel around the world full-time, I think the most frequent question we got was about how we’d manage health care while outside of the US. Which is fair. We’re…
The Government Doesn’t Like Homeless People
Pretty much every part of the launch has been tricky, but domiciling has been one of the trickiest. Most folks who consider themselves expats don’t travel full time. They simply relocate to another country. You…
Managing Data
Data management and data security turned out to be one of the thorniest, and most important, topics to unravel as we made plans to depart. Strap in. There are a lot of words here. Call…
