… not even a couple of mostly retired bloggers. It’s the end of 2024, at least one of us is nursing a cold, and we’re settling back in after a…
Part 8b: Revisiting “Our Stuff is Now Their Stuff” – Results!
tl;dr: the managed seller auction pickup process is so easy, we could have left the house for the day. 2024 tl;dr: this is a factual account of how selling our…
Part 8: Our Stuff is Now Their Stuff
One of the people in our area (henceforth known as RV) in the Americans and Friends in Portugal facebook group (henceforth AFiP) group mentioned they were using MaxSold to sell…
Part 7. A Goal Without a Plan is Just a Wish
(attributed to Antoine de Saint-Exupery) (the photo is not relevant. Nothing interesting to look at it in this post, so that is us in front of Bodiam Castle in Sussex,…
Part 6. When Do We Leave?
We’ve decided that we would like to move to Portugal. Great! Now how exactly do we make it happen and when will we be able to afford it. We work…
Part 5. Portugal
The Portugal portion of our story is, unsurprisingly if you’ve actually read parts 1-4, complicated. When we started to sniff around Portugal as a potential Golden Visa target, we found…
Part 4. Vive la France?
As I said at the end of the previous post in this series, we started to get cold feet about Italy. We’ve looked at some weather data, and it is…
Part 3. Tomorrow is Promised to No One
So, somewhere along the line, and this going back to a of couple years ago, (now almost 5!) I say aloud to my wife “I can’t get this one thought…
Part 2. Let’s Do This
Welcome to the second part of our annotated look back at the process of us moving to Europe. Hopefully, it’s an enjoyable read for you; we’re certainly enjoying going over…
Part 1. Can We Do This?
Lisa and I had formulated a retirement plan over the first umpteen years of our relationship; a good, solid, dependable, American retirement plan. We would work into our 60s, then move to Ashland, Oregon or one of the neighboring towns. There, we would integrate with the artistic and spiritual communities, volunteer at the Shakespeare Festival, and generally enjoy our life. We even had our eye on a retirement community a little north on I-5 that we always saw when we drove down, and figured that was where we would transition to if we weren’t able to live on our own at some point. It was a fine plan.
