Penedès: Cava
As a special experience this trip, we decided to venture out of the city to the region of Penedès – the heart of cava country. If you’ve never experienced Spanish cava – the Spanish version of sparkling wine – then you are missing out. Of the three types of sparkling wine, French champagne is the best known, followed by Italian prosecco, and least known is Spanish cava. In my (not so) humble opinion, my preference runs in the opposite direction…
Things I see…
I think most of us snap pics on our phones, thinking that we will share them. I know I do, and yet I rarely get around to sharing. I’ve been going thru my phone pics and here are some fun ones: HOUSE – there have been lots of changes, and some stable periods. We are finally settling in and feeling like it is HOME. CAUGHT MY EYE – sometimes you say, I’ve gotta take a picture of that otherwise no-one…
Some days don’t go to plan…
We bought the house in October. We started renovating in November. This has been far more stressful than I’d expected. The house is large, but we have been squeezed down into a small amount of space because multiple renovation jobs are going on at one time. We knew the palapa/roof construction was going to be disruptive. The palapa and pergola are DONE!!! The counter/bar is in, the stairs from ground to roof are done. YAY. We are paused on the…
Backfilling: October 21st
The last (nearly) three weeks have been a combination of spectacular highs – excitement, joy, disbelief – combined with exhaustion, chaos, and endless decisions. A potent cocktail!! In addition, we are STILL waiting for internet service at the new place – so all internet needs require a trip back to the rental house. Thank goodness we have the place until the end of the year!!! So… we closed on the house on October 21st. It was a thrilling and draining…
Say it out loud
We saw the following FB ad. We were very confused. Until we read it out loud, using SPANISH pronunciation. The J sounds like an H. The I is a long E sound. LOL
Hurricane Olaf – a big blow-hard
Olaf is the second hurricane to reach “worrisome” status for us. The first was Nora – who veered towards the mainland at the last moment, and left Baja with some rain and not much else. Olaf was considered a non-event, until the last moment when it intensified to a category 2 hurricane and made landfall near Todos Santos – north of Cabo San Lucas, on the Pacific side. In preparation for Nora, we battened down the proverbial hatches. We got…
OMG!!! They said “YES”
I was today old when I found out that the offer that the Basha and I put in on “La Casa de Nuestros Sueños” (the house of our dreams) was accepted – no counter, just as written!!! I can’t believe it!!! We’ve had some rough starts and dead ends. This is a house I can see us being in for a LOOONNNGGGGGGG time. It has room for visitors, a pool for hot days, in the flat, walkable part of the…
The things I saw: this week!
There are always fun things to see. Especially if you are paying attention. These photos may not seem worthy of a post – but look closely… Motorcycles – For everyone who has owned a bike (dirt bike, street bike, even a mountain bike) you know that modifications are the norm. Most of us want to be able to CARRY stuff on our bike. On my old KLR, I had a grey plastic Husky tool box bolted to the back! We…
Closing the loop – FINALLY
The stress, work, decisions, etc. are finally behind us! Is it “all done” in the PNW? Absolutely not! We got WAY more accomplished than either of us thought was possible. We are in a WAY better position for the eventual “real move” to Mexico (not just the year-and-a-half-plus-and-counting accidental Mexpat experience). We pushed to both physical and mental exhaustion, and then ran for the border. The Basha did virtually ALL of the driving to get us to the border (and…
The Grand Adventure pt. 2: Dog Days
Not as in “the dog days of summer” – those steamy, hot days that seem to last forever – our dog days were spent working like dogs. In 4 weeks in the PNW we put hands on just about every item that we own. We got rid of 2 running motorcycles and 2 rolling chassis’ with enough motor/parts for one amazing bike. We became familiar faces to the people at the dump and household haz waste and Goodwill. Luckily we…