We arrived at the Empire Hotel in NYC on the 21st. It is right next to Lincoln Center and just a couple blocks from Central Park. We needed to be in NYC for the pups first veterinarian visit on the 22nd at Heart of Chelsea Veterinarian. Heart of Chelsea has a department that specializes in […]
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
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
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
When we decided we wanted to live near Spain’s high speed rail we discovered Valencia city. It’s an hour to Madrid by high speed rail and an hour to Barcelona by ferry over the Mediterranean. They have an international airport. The location was exactly what we were looking for. When we looked into the city
In January 2019 we went to London and Hyderabad India and we had an adventure. Travel was difficult, but the experiences and the different perspectives we were exposed to were wonderful. We started to play with the idea of retirement in the European Union. After a few months of research we decided Spain would be
We’ve had a wonderful busy spring. Everyone has been getting vaccinated. Cirrus has one more booster round and then the entire house will be vaccinated and we’re celebrating. We’ve been training up Cirrus and getting the house ready for spring. It’s a lot of mowing. We had a beautiful raised garden installed, it’s so easy
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