Tag: 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…
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…
We had just crested an incline when the whirl of Ballena Blanca’s engine suddenly went quiet and stopped. We were on the Horace Wilkinson Bridge crossing over the Mississippi River into Baton Rouge, Louisiana. With the forward momentum we had…
Good news! The van has been repaired! If you have been following along with our monthly reports from the road you know that our beloved van, Ballena Blanca, broke down on February 1st in Oaxaca, México. If you haven’t been…
It sounds like aliens coming to beam us up. The song of cicadas bubbles up into a crescendo of an electric hum. It lasts seconds before the noise bubbles away just to start again. There is a field between us…
