Author: Duwan

Pride and Pickpocketing

The Metro was packed. It was Sunday afternoon, and we were heading to our first cultural event with our Spanish School in Medellín. At our stop, the majority of the passengers poured out. We stayed with the flow, funneling one…

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July 2024 Expenses & Backpack Travel in Colombia

July was a busy month. We moved twice, a friend from the US visited us, and we took 3 1/2 weeks of Spanish classes. The first 5 days were spent in the Manila area of Poblado finishing up the 4-week…

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One week in Cartagena de Indias

We landed in the morning and walked down the plane’s stairs into the blazing sunlight. It had been a long flight. Just 24 hours previously, we were washing the sheets and cleaning the house of our last house-sit in Colorado….

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June 2024 Expenses & Backpack Travel in Colombia

June started for us somewhere in the air on the way to South America. We saw the sunrise on our layover in Panama and landed in full daylight in Cartagena. We had come to Colombia to fulfill our plan of…

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Nomad Life & Expenses March, April, & May 2024

The months of March, April, and May were all spent house-sitting in Colorado. We took care of 14 different pets in 7 different households which we lined up with our Trusted House Sitters subscription*. Our main focus, besides taking care…

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Buenos Vientos, Ballena Blanca

Ballena Blanca is gone. Off to new adventures with a new owner. On May 10 we signed the papers, deposited a check with my phone, and gave Ballena Blanca’s keys to her new companion. Ballena was our only permanent home…

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Nomad Life & Expenses January & February 2024

The start of a month of house sits We rang in the New Year in Mexico City, mostly recovered but still feeling the effects of whatever bug we had caught. Three days later on  January 3, we flew back to…

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La Ruta del Mezcal

February 22 – July 4, 2023. Five years ago when we were traveling around Mexico we discovered Mezcal. Since then we have been on a quest to learn more about this distilled liquor. When we found ourselves stuck in Oaxaca…

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Nomad Life Nov & Dec 2023 & CDMX Expenses

November started out special. Greg’s mom, Dossie, had mentioned visiting Brevard College where she and Perry first met. So on the first of November, we all hopped into the car, including Dossie’s miniature longhaired dachshund, Penny, and drove a few…

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Oaxaca Excursions

One of the fun things about the area of Oaxaca we were stuck in for 4 months was the variety of small towns that were excursion-worthy. Many of these towns specialized in a craft or event or a special natural…

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