Author: Living our retirement dream
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Christmas Season in SMA
We love being in foreign countries and experiencing their local seasonal decorations and customs. These are a mix of pictures we took in the weeks leading up to Christmas.
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Paul and Alicia in San Miguel
Jim’s oldest nephew and his wife who live in Denver visited us in Mexico City in 2019. We love to visit them in Denver and were very excited to have them come visit us in San Miguel de Allende. Paul flew his Mooney from Denver to Queretaro which is about 90 minutes from SMA. They […]
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Nos Encanta San Miguel de Allende
We have been in San Miguel de Allende for six weeks now and are settling into a routine when we are alone without any guests. We usually climb the 525 steps every other day and we walk into the central part of town on our way home where we do errands or have our one […]
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Thanksgiving in San Miguel de Allende
We are very happy to be back in Mexico and even happier to be able to hang out with Miguel and Ivonne who have become very dear amigos thanks to our mutual friend Adele Waller who gave us an email introduction. Besides saving Jim’s life one year ago during his heart attack we have had […]
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Return to San Miguel de Allende
We flew out of Boston early on the morning of 15 November 2021 headed for San Miguel de Allende, it is exactly one year since we embarked on this same trip which ended when Jim had an acute ST elevation myocardial infarction on November 25. It has been a long and eventful year, some of […]
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Update on the end of El Camino and Jim’s health
One month ago today, October 4, Jim trudged up one last hill, sat on a guardrail next to Sandy and bade a teary farewell to our dream of finishing the Camino this year. His body would just not allow him to continue. It has been a long painful month of dealing with a broken health […]
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Camino del Norte: from Santander to Santander or as Sandy calls it “Meano del Norte”.
September 30 is a down day in Santander which means doing laundry and getting ready for another week of walking. We also visited the local mercado just for interest as we certainly can’t buy anything. We really liked Santander with a good mix of old and new. Below is the original Santander Bank being renovated. […]
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Down day in Bilbao
What a luxury not to have get up early and walk up and over steep hills. Our bodies are thanking us although we have both felt quite good every day with minimal stiffness or soreness. We are trying to stretch a little more as we rarely stretch at all. Since we arrived in Bilbao around […]
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El Camino Norte: From San Sebastian to Bilbao.
We are both very anxious, we have been planning this pilgrimage for ten months. Karen Lewis and Bill Boyle, a classmate of Jim’s from high school, college and medical school and his wife, actually planned the trip through Mac’s Adventure and we joined them. We then recruited our neighbor Peggy Scott to walk the first […]
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On The Road Again San Sebastian/Donostia
We left Madrid 18 months ago as the world shut down and now on 12 September we returned to Madrid en route to San Sebastian where we will begin a pilgrimage of 500 miles, walking from San Sebastian to Santiago de Compostela along the northern coast of Spain. This pilgrimage is called El Camino de […]
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Welcome 2021, Farewell 2020
2020 has probably been one of the worst years any of us have ever known, but in spite of that most of us still have an awful lot of things to be very thankful for. Our items of thankfulness for this year include: 1. Being retired from health care; 2. Having our extended family healthy, […]
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Road Trip 2020, Asheville to Denver.
Our last day in Asheville we had breakfast at Sunny Point Cafe which was also our first stop on arriving here. After breakfast Bob and Gail dropped us at the airport to pick up a rental car. They were very low on cars and the first car we got, a Toyota Camry, had a loud […]
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Road Trip 2020, Western North Carolina
We have two weeks in Asheville to spend time with family and friends. Saturday morning September 5 Jim returns our rental car to the Asheville airport and takes a taxi home. We will be using the MacAlpines Toyota Camry which has 158,000 miles on it. We are so appreciative of their generosity in allowing us […]
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Road Trip 2020 Boston to Asheville
Since escaping Madrid in March we have been in lockdown in Boston, living above the Post Office on Charles Street from March 21 until July 1 when we moved back into our own home on Beacon Street. In spite of being in lockdown we have stayed very busy as we are liquidating our entire estate […]
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