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May 2025 – Retirement is a full time job
This months photo comes from our new chickens. Several already laying, we’ve eaten many and given gifts to our Italian friends. Immigration This is a big milestone. George…
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April 2025 – The journey continues
Summary In April we had visitors from the US and France. We continued our efforts on the PdS (Permesso di Soggiorno) which allow us to fully integrate into…
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March 2025 – Looking to Spring
Summary March we (finally) finalized the purchase of the house, its litterally and figuratively DONE!!. We continued progress on our immigration journey. We celebrated George’s birthday and our…
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March 2025 – The house is ours!!
After 3.5 long years from our first seeing the house, we signed the paperwork to complete the purchase today. So many ups and downs along this road. We…
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February 2025 – The weary travelers
Summary February focused on finalizing the property purchase, completing additional steps for immigration, concluding septic repairs and a new well water issue. We traveled between timezones quite a…
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January 2025 – The end of the world
Summary Though a bit dramatic, the title of this post is hardly bad news, instead reflects how we spent our exile as our Italian visitor visa time ran…
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December 2024 – The end of the year
Summary The month’s photo was taken from the very edge of the front yard at the house level. It reveals winter’s arrival, colder temps and wind. Lots of…
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November 2024 – Living Italy
Summary November marked our official move to Italy. House purchase not complete and immigration not finished, what could go wrong? We packed a portion of our belongings, our…
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November 2024 – Our home becomes Italy
We sit in the airline lounge. Having performed dozens of steps to get to this moment. We will have dozens more in the coming years, at least. This…
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November 2024 – First olive oil harvest
We’ve shared some bits of this story, but now that the harvest has been fully completed, thought we’d share the whole story with pictures and videos. At a…
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October 2024 – We can taste it
October has been a whirlwind. From LA house sale, purging all things not coming with us, cat travel planning, flight planning for our exit, storage, immigration, taxes and…
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September 2024 – Late Summer Fun
September we headed back to Italy. Lots of things still up in the air, but small steps in the right direction, and many keep us busy. Our trip…