After the Los Angeles Consulate approved my first non-lucrative visa (NLV) application for Spain, I was relieved...
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Since 1996, I have ridden at least one double century--a bicycle ride of 200 miles--every year....
A few months into my successful iPad-Pro-replaced-my-PC experiment, I knew I would replace my Google Pixel 4a...
In 2016, I received an email from a New Hampshire running legend named Bob Kennedy. He...
Over the last year, I've heard from many American friends who either retired to Portugal or...
October 24, 2022 was exciting for this iPad-Pro-replaced-my-computer enthusiast. On this day, Apple released iPadOS 16...
"On October 16," I wrote my friend Adam in September, "I will use the Kinvara 13...
"Finished planning Portugal trip," wrote my dear friend Tori. "September 24 to October 12. You are...
I was in front of the SiXT rental car counter at SFO for at least half...
"Tomorrow," my dad suggested late Wednesday night, "you should take Andrea to Yosemite." That idea had never...
For our final week of vacation, we went to northern California. There were many reasons to...
Twenty-three years. That's how long it took me to run a marathon in every state in the USA....
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"I think I will be able to put in a special effort in Alaska," I told...
The Alaskan Wildlife Conservation Center trip was such a delight that we wondered if we should partake in...
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Andrea was particularly interested in seeing bears and the Northern Lights in Alaska. While finding the...
"It's going to be cold in Alaska," I told Andrea a month before we were in...
In March, I received an email from my friend Phil. "We took a road trip in January,"...
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I had already been advising (without pay in compliance with the terms of my non-lucrative residence visa...
Initially, I wasn't planning on having us visit southern California during our whirlwind, month-long, five-state tour...
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I was excited about doing the Air Force Marathon in Dayton, Ohio for many reasons. It...
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"There won't be much to see in Ohio," I told Andrea before the trip. "Therefore, we...
The six days we spent in Fort Collins were some of the busiest of our entire...
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On our second day on the Big Island of Hawaii, Erin took Andrea and me snorkeling....
After Kauai, we visited the big island of Kona. Kona is markedly drier than Kauai, and...
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In 2021, I signed up for and ran the Rock 'n' Roll Madrid Marathon because of...