The Ramblings of an Aspiring Expat Traveling Nomad Wanderer
It’s Thursday in Ocean Grove. It’s been raining since last night. Ocean Grove is on the coast just west of the inlet to Melbourne harbor. Yesterday was rather delightful. Jill and I walked to the beach and followed it to town. The water is gorgeously blue and green in the sunlight. The beach is wide and sandy. We found a few shells Ive never seen before.… Read the rest
Ok, so now I’m on a jet to Melbourne, Australia by way of Los Angeles. What a ride. Jill got cleared of any mysterious illnesses last week. We decided to head south for warmth and a place to gather our wits. It’s also closer to where we would like to be for a while. Australia is not exactly opposite Minnesota on the globe but it’s pretty close.… Read the rest
The wind is surprisingly bitter today. Jill found out nobody’s looked at her the medical test results we returned here for. We’d been led to believe they would be reviewed before today. So we wait and read books. The days go by. The weather is indifferently getting colder. Tonight we will carve pumpkins with a bunch of friends. Jill is roasting vegetables for the party.… Read the rest
I had a bit of a lazy day yesterday. Jill and I went to Blue Moon cafe for coffee, Longfellow Market and Walgreens for errands. Jill signed up for a housesitting website and now we are looking for a place for a break and planning. We had leftover soup and bread to lunch and supper was mashed potatoes and some sautéed vegetables.… Read the rest
We’ve returned to this place of comfort and warm air. It is 80º F outside. I am always on the verge of sweating. We arrived in the afternoon heat. This morning I’m eating a bowl of pomelo chunks. Tomorrow will be nearly the same and the day after we will pack up and fly to New York. The heat will be a fleeting thing.… Read the rest
Here we are back in Northern Minnesota. We’ve returned to see a very important baby. Jill’s new-mother-cousin is visiting her parents. We decided to get in on the action. The state fair ended on Monday and it already feels like a dream I had. We worked and played there for the entire 12 days of it. We have worked at the German Root Beer stand for 8 years.… Read the rest
I’ve been in Minneapolis for about a week and Minnesota for nearly a month now. Jill and I are slowly visiting family and friends.Currently we are holed up while we watch two doggies for a few days. We are going to work at the State Fair, and that will fill up our time quite a bit. We have not been idle since we paused here; it feels a bit like I should be going back to work and rejoin the lives we left here.… Read the rest
We made it to Portland last night. It’s feels like years since Sacramento. Jill and I spent ten days apart at the same meditation camp. There was no speaking or interaction allowed between the men and the women or with anyone for that matter. I think I am still pondering what I got out of it. Jill wrote all about her experience.… Read the rest
This is Tempe in the summer. It is blazing hot outside and relatively hot indoors. It’s a little too hot for me. We’ve been here for one week staying with our friends Rob and Leah who just moved here from Norfolk. We stayed with them on our other road trip to Florida. Because of the heat we have been staying inside mostly.… Read the rest
We rolled into Flagstaff to a Taco Tuesday party at Martine’s house. We found Lucia and Penelope already there visiting for soccer camp. Exciting to see cousins and their kin after too long absent.