Living the retirement dream

We are sharing our ideal retirement experiences.

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  • Take another walk in our shoes. Caminho Portugues da Costa

    Take another walk in our shoes.  Caminho Portugues da Costa

    There are numerous Camino de Santiagos and as part of our training for our second attempt at completing the Camino this October we are enjoying trying out short segments of other Caminos. We walked about 17 miles out of Madrid on May 24 and we thought that it would be fun to now walk out…

    Living our retirement dream

    July 24, 2022
    Portugal
    El Camino de Santiago
  • AZORES with Jason and family

    AZORES with Jason and family

    We just spent three weeks visiting four of our five offspring in four different states. Our fifth family lives in Florida which is our permanent address. We are not big fans of Florida so were delighted to hear that Jason and his family were going to visit Catarina’s birthplace on the island of Sao Miguel…

    Living our retirement dream

    July 23, 2022
    Portugal
  • Home to Friends and family

    Home to Friends and family

    We have been traveling the world now for over six years and truly houseless for a year and a half, yet we keep coming back to Boston as this is where we lived most of our lives. The majority of our friends are in this area and it is a great hub for connecting to…

    Living our retirement dream

    July 16, 2022
    Denver, Madrid, Pandemic Travel
    Boston
  • Audrey and Neil in Madrid

    Audrey and Neil in Madrid

    Sandy first met Audrey and Neil, both Anesthesiologists, in the Ambulatory Surgery Center of Lahey Clinic Peabody in the early 2000’s. They became friends and occasionally interacted socially with other friends introducing Jim into the mix. In 2016 Jim had major surgery and Sandy asked Neil to administer his anesthesia. After our retirement in 2017…

    Living our retirement dream

    May 28, 2022
    Madrid
    Avila, Segovia
  • Camino Madrid, take a walk in our shoes.

    Camino Madrid, take a walk in our shoes.

    We have committed to finishing the Camino de Santiago this fall, but not by the same route that we followed last year. Sandy really wants to walk the traditional Camino Frances route. We have elected not to do the first leg which is a steep ascent over the Pyrenees mountains on day one. Instead we…

    Living our retirement dream

    May 25, 2022
    El Camino de Santiago, Madrid
    Camino Madrid, El Camino de Santiago
  • Deb in Madrid and Seville

    Deb in Madrid and Seville

    Deb Camara was best friends with our daughter-in-law Catarina Gomes when they were growing up. We first met Deb at Catarina and Jason’s wedding and then got to know her better, years later through different running events. She was the youngest member of Sandy’s “sole sisters” running group which originated through a running club which…

    Living our retirement dream

    April 24, 2022
    Madrid, Seville
    Holy Week in Seville., Macarena, Semana Santa, Sevilla, Seville, Seville Cathedral
  • Peggy, Paul and Sigi in Madrid

    Peggy, Paul and Sigi in Madrid

    It’s a long and complicated story as to how the five of us met, but Madrid will be the first time and place that we have all been together. Peggy became our neighbor in Boston in 2007 and we immediately became friends. While in London in 2018, she introduced us to Sigi and Paul by…

    Living our retirement dream

    April 23, 2022
    Madrid
  • Donna and Mark in Madrid

    Donna and Mark in Madrid

    We first met Donna Quirk at 75 Chestnut Street, a restaurant and bar, in Beacon Hill, Boston. We were sitting at the bar discussing the start up of a Beacon Hill Running Club (which never happened) when Donna joined the group sitting down next to us. At the end of the night Donna discovered that…

    Living our retirement dream

    April 15, 2022
    Madrid
  • MADRID ESPAÑA

    MADRID ESPAÑA

    We left Madrid March 21 2020 as the pandemia was overtaking the world and especially Spain and Italy. We returned to Spain on September 12 to walk the Camino de Santiago de Compostela. We are now returning to Spain on March 12, exactly six months later to resume our experiencing Madrid. It all seems very…

    Living our retirement dream

    April 4, 2022
    Madrid
  • Memories of San Miguel de Allende

    Memories of San Miguel de Allende

    We spent three and a half months in San Miguel which is more time than we usually spend in one place but it was nice and warm and very comfortable. We have many fond memories and have summarized them in pictures below.

    Living our retirement dream

    March 13, 2022
    San Miguel de Allende
  • Almost a Full House

    Almost a Full House

    Mike and Gayle Oulighan have visited us before in Paris and Mexico City. Deb Camara has made plans to visit us but the pandemic changed those plans. Gayle and Deb are part of Sandy’s running friends who first met in 2010 when Sandy was training for the Athens Marathon. They call themselves “The Sole Sisters”.…

    Living our retirement dream

    March 12, 2022
    San Miguel de Allende
  • Brothers

    Brothers

    We rented a large home here in San Miguel de Allende as we were hoping for a lot of visiting friends, but Jim was also hoping to pull together a reunion of his three brothers. The reunion of all four brothers did not happen but we were able to convince two of the three to…

    Living our retirement dream

    March 12, 2022
    San Miguel de Allende
  • Bill and Karen

    Bill and Karen

    John William Boyle was a classmate of Jim’s from 10th grade through medical school. They roomed together the first year of medical school and have remained friends through the years. Bill was the smart one, valedictorian and awards, while Jim has always been the practical grounded one. Karen planned our Camino trip as she and…

    Living our retirement dream

    March 5, 2022
    San Miguel de Allende
  • Monarch Butterfly Tour

    Monarch Butterfly Tour

    So one day after spending three hours in a van with twelve other people doing a tour of Guanajuato we are again at the San Miguel de Allende Public Library at 7am for a 12 hour tour. We get the same rattletrap van but this time it is just the Bailey’s, a driver, a guide…

    Living our retirement dream

    February 26, 2022
    San Miguel de Allende
    Mirador Peña Blanca, Monarch butterflies
  • Guanajuato

    Guanajuato

    Guanajuato is the capital city of The Free and Sovereign State of Guanajuato which is one of 36 states which make up the United States of Mexico. San Miguel de Allende is in the state of Guanajuato. Located in central Mexico it is known for its silver mining and colonial architecture. Its network of narrow…

    Living our retirement dream

    February 25, 2022
    San Miguel de Allende
    El Pipila, Guanajuato
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