This week was pretty chill. We were pretty tired from the retreat. 🙂 Trev and I “hiked” around the community and up to the top of the property. It was STEEP, way steeper than the last hill we walked up, but the view was amazing. I’m liking our walks around the community. We let the... Continue Reading →

Daniel came over one evening to swim and play video games with the boys. After dinner, he helped us navigate even further into the city. The reward for his guidance was his favorite treat, açaí. Trev and I like açaí and this was the boys’ first time having it. It is SO good here. The... Continue Reading →

Monday, April 1st, we moved out of the apartment and into our house for the next year. Thankfully it came furnished, most rentals in Brazil do not; not even appliances, some we looked at didn’t even have cabinets, and the renters are responsible for everything. Unlike America where the landlord usually pays for upkeep and... Continue Reading →

Please don’t scroll down or you will see how long this post is and not even read it. I’ll try to post more frequently in the future so that, hopefully, the posts won’t be long like this. There has just been so much going on, I didn’t have the mental energy to post sooner. Just... Continue Reading →

So a bit of an update, we found a really nice couple to take our dogs. It was SO hard. We all cried but the couple were so nice and already had Bostons, so they were familiar with a lot of the breed’s idiosyncrasies. Despite how hard it was to give them away, what a... Continue Reading →

Rejected! Just two days after we submitted all our paperwork, the consulate returned our paperwork with no visas inside. Instead we found a note stating they wanted additional information (information that was not originally required). I think it had to do with some confusing wording on one of the documents we submitted. Once we gathered... Continue Reading →

I can’t believe it has been almost four years since the last post. I can’t wait to fill you in on the BIG NEWS. Without rehashing the past too much, Covid shut our trip down and sent us home, having visited 42 out of 50 states. We came home and life went on. We put... Continue Reading →

So this is what we’re looking at. I don’t know about you but this sight makes my heart sink. This is the quickest path to home. We want to be smart and safe. This was not an easy decision. In hindsight, we would have made some different decisions in the beginning of this pandemic but... Continue Reading →

Well, we were hoping to travel around in Oregon some. We had a house we rented off VRBO lined up and then the day before we left California, the owner contacts us and said the city of Warrenton, that we were heading to on the coast, closed the city to short-term rentals and hotels. Renters... Continue Reading →