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Continue reading →: BittersweetAs the summer creeps into Colorado, we prepare to leave it for Portugal. We’ve waited so long to be able to leave, but also waited so long to be with our friends and celebrate the coming end of a once in a century (hopefully) pandemic. We just feel back and…
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Continue reading →: Fourteen MonthsFourteen months lost. Fourteen months of too much death, sickness and bad news. Fourteen months of lockdown. Fourteen months of socializing by computer, mostly. Fourteen months of meals in. And then there’s now…. hope and return. As two fully vaccinated people we finally broke out of the bubble, socialized in…
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Continue reading →: A Shot in the ArmA little over a week ago, I became eligible in the state of Colorado for the COVID vaccine (Melissa, being a hospital employee was eligible earlier this year). That day, I was able to find an appointment for this past week and my first shot of the Pfizer vaccine is…
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Continue reading →: One Long Year, Bring on What’s NextIt was a year ago that I was writing about this new pandemic. The uncertainty of it. The curve ball it was starting to throw into our long planned journeying. We knew so little then. I’m not even sure the runs on toilet paper had started and we certainly weren’t…
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Continue reading →: Winter has come, againAs we bid adieu to this wretched year, we find ourselves doing what we were doing just as the virus descended upon and around us and the world…. walking and hiking on snow covered trails and paths in the Colorado mountains. Granted, back then we had no idea what path…
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Continue reading →: Nós somos residentes de PortugalA couple of months ago we learned that we are now officially Portuguese residents. Years of planning, researching and preparing culminating with the paperwork, apostilling of documents, fingerprinting and finally we are here. It is very exciting but also comes in the midst of this crazy pandemic and so now…
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Continue reading →: The Next Swan DiveBy Melissa. When David and I first concocted our plan of full-time travel, we were serious, but it was a bit of a fantasy, more than seven years away. It was a hobby, the planning and researching. It was something we did in our spare time, when not occupied with…
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Continue reading →: Vote (aka Election Day should be a National Holiday)While we were not supposed to be in the USA at this point and while we had done our research for what would be required to vote as ex-pats overseas, well… you know what happened. So here we are, at home, awaiting the results of the most contentious election cycle…
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Continue reading →: Nothing Gold Can StayNature’s first green is gold,Her hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf’s a flower;But only so an hour.Then leaf subsides to leaf.So Eden sank to grief,So dawn goes down to day.Nothing gold can stay. —- Robert Frost
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Continue reading →: To everything, turn turn turnSeasons change and so do I, you need not wonder why. One of the most beautiful seasons in Colorado is upon us. Without the looming threat of snowy and icy commutes (I guess COVID has an upside?) fall is ever more sparklingly spectacular in the Colorado mountains and while we…
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