Category: Nomad Life & Expenses
We began October in the lovely Mindo, exploring the cloud forest, birding, and searching for waterfalls. But we were soon headed south. We had a house sit to get to by October 15 in Cuenca. We took a bus from…
September was a weird month for us. We spent most of it in Quito, Ecuador, where we intended to take Spanish classes. But then we decided to teach ourselves instead of going to school. We bought various online programs…
We moved around a lot in August. We started out in Envigado in the southern part of Medellín but moved to the Manila neighborhood adjacent to the trendy and hip Poblado neighborhood when our friend Wayne came to visit us…
July was a busy month. We moved twice, a friend from the US visited us, and we took 3 1/2 weeks of Spanish classes. The first 5 days were spent in the Manila area of Poblado finishing up the 4-week…
June started for us somewhere in the air on the way to South America. We saw the sunrise on our layover in Panama and landed in full daylight in Cartagena. We had come to Colombia to fulfill our plan of…
The months of March, April, and May were all spent house-sitting in Colorado. We took care of 14 different pets in 7 different households which we lined up with our Trusted House Sitters subscription*. Our main focus, besides taking care…
The start of a month of house sits We rang in the New Year in Mexico City, mostly recovered but still feeling the effects of whatever bug we had caught. Three days later on January 3, we flew back to…
November started out special. Greg’s mom, Dossie, had mentioned visiting Brevard College where she and Perry first met. So on the first of November, we all hopped into the car, including Dossie’s miniature longhaired dachshund, Penny, and drove a few…
On August 14 of last year, Greg’s father, Perry, had a stroke. We were in Cabbagetown (Atlanta) at the time house sitting for friends. After Greg got the call, we made a quick trip to the grocery store, and then…
In July we finally landed at our first house sit of the summer in Cabbagetown. After a month of driving and visiting friends and family in June and visiting more friends and family during the first week of July, we…
