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Interstitial: Resetting at home, plus our stuff arrived!

Posted in Daily Life, Emmigrating
Lisa and John

A funny/odd thing is happening with timing right now. We mentioned it before, but just to clarify – on the day this is published, we will actually be a week…

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Things to Do Before You Move

Posted in Emmigrating
Lisa Mc Sherry

Since we’re between trips at the moment, let’s turn the Wayback Machine towards the fall of 2021. Anyone who knows me won’t be surprised that when we started to get…

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SEF Dreaming

Posted in Emmigrating
Lisa Mc Sherry

I imagine the Serviço de Estrangeiros e Fronteiras — or SEF for short– the government unit responsible for processing and approving visas — as a typical office. Typical people sit…

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Part 7. A Goal Without a Plan is Just a Wish

Posted in Emmigrating, Portugal
John

This post is part of a series called Moving to Portugal (attributed to Antoine de Saint-Exupery) (the photo is not relevant. Nothing interesting to look at it in this post,…

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Part 6. When Do We Leave?

Posted in Emmigrating, Moving
John

This post is part of a series called Moving to Portugal We’ve decided that we would like to move to Portugal. Great! Now how exactly do we make it happen…

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Part 5. Portugal

Posted in Emmigrating, Portugal
John

This post is part of a series called Moving to Portugal The Portugal portion of our story is, unsurprisingly if you’ve actually read parts 1-4, complicated. When we started to…

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Part 4. Vive la France?

Posted in Emmigrating
John

This post is part of a series called Moving to Portugal As I said at the end of the last post in this series, we started to get cold feet…

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It Was A Rough Couple of Days Today

Posted in Emmigrating
John

This post is part of a series called The Portugal D7 Visa Process Our first few posts here at The Ramble have been recounting the story of how Lisa and…

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Contona Piazza

Part 2. Let’s Do This

Posted in Emmigrating
John

This post is part of a series called Moving to Portugal Moving to Europe was still very much a hypothetical at this point, but a couple of things began to…

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Kent Washington from above.

Part 1. Can We Do This?

Posted in Emmigrating
John

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.

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