We left our house in Nashville on December 12, 2022 to start driving north. We left the house a little later than we had hoped, so we made our first stop just a few hours north of Nashville in Bowling Green, Kentucky and spent the night at my parents house. We are so glad it […]
Our plans for 2023 seem to be finally coming together, and we are excited and relieved. Getting into Spain on the original Visa we had planned was going to be impossible. So we had to decide whether to wait, or make alternate plans. Seeing more of Europe is what we decided. We researched spending a
Well we’re still planning and things change almost daily. We do think we have a plan – but we have a few more Zoom meetings to make sure it will work before the decision is final. Why are our plans changing? Croatia is joining Schengen on January 1, 2023. So our plans of bouncing between
Closing a chapter in your life is always painful and for me memories around closing of chapters always stay vivid in my mind. They are at least as vivid as the memories of the new chapters. But that’s only true when you know the chapter is closing. Graduations, Divorces, Moves, etc. Not including marriage, I
Things change. After the last several years we know that better than most. We’ve been planning a move to Spain for several years. Our original plan won’t work because of Visa issues and misunderstanding on our end. This was going to set us back around a year. It was a pretty devastating blow. But as
We knew that this wouldn’t be as easy as it seemed like it would be in February when we spoke to the immigration attorney. It all just seemed too easy, and it was. The Non Lucrative Visa. In February we were told we could get this visa and continue working jobs in the USA. Last
I absolutely love infographics. When we started thinking about moving to Spain, I started researching every aspect of life in Spain I could think of. While doing that research I came across so many wonderful infographics, and I did not save them. Since making the decision to move, I have started saving infographics relating to
We started by doing some Google research when we were first considering retiring overseas. Spain has a few Visas that we were interested in for retirement, the non-lucrative and the golden Visa were the most desirable for retirement. The non-lucrative visa is for people who do not need or plan to work while in Spain
Deciding to move to a country where you don’t speak the language takes a lot of preparation. We started learning Spanish on Duolingo in July 2019. We both did at least 5 minutes of Spanish most days until the end of 2021, for a total of nearly 30 months of daily Spanish practice. By the
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