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Outfitting the Galley
Foruntately, there is a mall just a couple blocks from our hotel and so we started buying what we need for the boat. The galley is an important place to start since we always have to eat. The question is, what do we actually use in our kitchen? I know that I have accumulated […]
Midsummer Festival
Through an international organization called SERVAS, we have made some new friends here in Gotenberg. Ole and Britta arranged to pick us up from our hotel and introduce us to the Swedish celebration of Midsummer. We started at a park filled with famlies enjoying picnics with games for the children. There was also music […]
Taking Off
When it was time to board our Lufthansa flight to Frankfurt and on to Gotenberg, we suddenly became aware of a small detail regarding our seating. Somehow, our seats were placed in the very front of Business Class. This is almost as good as winning the lottery! To begin with, there is almost 5 […]
Life Administration
Well, it seems our financial lives must continue even when we travel about. Thank goodness for the internet! In all the books I’ve read about international travel, not one has mentioned the challenges of managing money on a global level. Even in these times with all the support of ATM’s where we can instantly […]
Graduation
We arrived in Portland and immediately appreciated the cool, fresh air of the Pacific Northwest. We had a job ahead of us to coordinate the convocation of the Noval family in honor of Daniel’s graduation. Nick was already in town, Daniel came up from Corvallis, and Randy flew in from New York City the […]
Illness strikes
Well, getting sick in a foreign country can be an adventure, especially if you don’t know the language. I called Jim on Monday because I just didn’t feel like I could go on. I was tired, I couldn’t breathe and I had run out of ideas for how to treat my asthma. It has […]
Zacatecas
After spending the night in Saltillo, we drove back via a different route (same strange landscape). I wanted to see the colonial city of Zacatecas. Early on (1700’s) Zacatecas was home to some Spanish who became welathy from the local silver mines. There is a lot of interesting colonial architecture in the city. We […]
Back to Guadalajara
We were both finally back together in time for the rainy season. According to local reasoning, the rainy season begins the 1st of June whether it rains or not. So we are now enjoying the season without the hint of a cloud. With our belongings scheduled to arrive on Wednes, there was only one […]
Lima
Because Jim had not been down to see his mom in a year and because of our other travel plans, we needed to go to Lima before returning to Oregon for Daniel’s graduation. We flew into the new Jorge Chavez airport in Lima and were delighted to see how much improvement has been […]
New in Guadalajara
The apartment is located on the 15th of an apartment building overlooking a golfcourse on one side and a shopping mall on the other. It is beautiful at night because we can see pretty much all of the city lights. It is so high that my ears pop in the elevator going down!
After looking […]