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Month: April 2020

Adrift in Houston, With Little to Do

Posted on 04/27/202005/30/2020 by margrad80

All my options and observations in this post are warped by the fact that the world is in the mist of the Covid19 pandemic. If and when this is all over, I will have to revisit my thoughts and see if they still hold true. When I booked my Airbnb in Texas, I was just…

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How I ended up adrift in Texas: A Nomad Interrupted continued …

Posted on 04/27/202004/27/2020 by margrad80

In the days leading up to leaving Peru, there was a lot of rain, and I found it much more interesting to play Stardew Valley on my iPad, than to go out and do things. After 140 days in Peru, I was rather excited to be changing countries again. I have determined that more than…

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Apple Hates Nomads: Why that turned out to be a good thing.

Posted on 04/27/202004/27/2020 by margrad80

As soon as I saw the keynote launching the MacBook Pro 16 inch, I wanted it. It wasn’t a matter of if I were going to get it, it was only a matter of how much the model I bought would be souped up. I had to wait to get it until I returned to…

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Nomad Interrupted

Posted on 04/14/202004/14/2020 by margrad80

So, you might have noticed that I haven’t been posting lately. Well, don’t worry Covid19 hasn’t gotten me, but it has tossed a big monkey wrench into my plans. When last we met, I had just returned from a trip to the Galápagos Islands. As it turned out the rains, which had delayed my return…

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My Inconvenient Live

I am a retired American Merchant Mariner.  l was living a nomadic lifestyle somewhere between being a nomad and an expat, before Covid19. I moved from country to country as my visas ran out. This blog covered my travels and the random thoughts about life, technology, travel, and the Oxford comma. Now I am stuck waiting for the pandemic to pass. During this time my posts will have very little to do with traveling, and more to do with keeping myself entertained during lockdown.

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