I was noodling around on the Arequipa Expat’s Facebook page yesterday, when I read a post one woman had written about having only been given a 90 day visa, when she came into the country, though she had received 183 day visa in the past. Before coming to Peru, I researched as much as I…
Category: Travel Minutia
A Year of Nomad Travel: The Spreadsheet Edition
When I first started planning to travel the world I found a great website called A Little Adrift. It is a great resource, and Shannon’s books are well worth buying. One of the best things Shannon has is her travel spreadsheet, which you can download for free. To get your own click here. Thanks Shannon!…
Kicking around the apartment in Arequipa, Peru.
If you are bored by minutia, stop reading now. This post is dedicated to the minutia of daily life living in different country than the one I was born and raised in. I know that it has been quite a long time since I posted anything to my blog, but I do have a good…
Heading back to the USA
Well, my visa ran out.
A Year in a Life of a Nomad
One Year, 12 Months, 365 Days, 8,765.82 hours, 525,949.2 minutes, or 31,556,952 seconds: It is all relative. August 20, 2018, I boarded a flight bound for the mainland, leaving Hawaii behind, after it had been my home for thirteen years. Face it, I was on the run. I was running away from financial pressures. I…
Adventures with Airbnb
I have a great niece. When she graduated from her masters program, the two of us flew to Paris for a celebratory vacation. I tell you, the best way to enjoy the museums of Paris is to go with a Forensic Archeologist. My niece planned what we did in Paris. My job was to get…
How I Pick a Temporary Home
For those of you, who haven’t been following my story: I was set up to head out on a wonderful year of traveling, after my retirement, when I was hit by some financial reversals. My home was already on the market, and I was nearly done with getting rid of almost everything I owned. Suddenly,…
Finding a Fitting Label
Sometimes I get caught up in trying to label myself. I am not sure if I am trying to figure out where I belong in the order of things or if I am just trying to come up with a handy shorthand to explain myself to others. Before I retired, my labels were pretty straightforward….
How the Packing List has changed in Ten Months: June 28, 2019
My original packing list was compiled using many other packing lists for minimalist travelers, which I found on the internet. I edited them for my best guess as what would work for me. Most of the other travel bloggers seem to fall into several categories:Vacationers (USA): fast travel, to make the best use of two…
Reviewing My Bucket List
As a child my bucket list was easy: I just looked at the map and said, “I want to visit that pink country, the blue one over there, and those three green ones, here, here and here.” When I got older and learned to read, I added historical sites, bitterly disappointed that six of the…