I will confess that I have spent more time thinking about gardens during the past 12 months than I probably have done for all of my other 44 years combined. Kinda weird really…and I am thinking about getting a check up to make sure that there is nothing wrong with me.
Actually it is not as...
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Gina and I have had health insurance through our places of employment for the past 25 plus years. During my career I was often responsible for selecting the health policies that our company would use to insure our employees, and so had some idea of the escalating costs of the health industry during the past...
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I have struggled from the very beginning with what the focus of Portable Parents Blog should be and what sort of content/stories I should write about and what I shouldn’t include on the website. I had not really thought of writing a blog until it was recommended to me by a friend, I thought I...
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We’ve received a few emails asking if we were still alive and where we were…as the title suggests we have arrived in Argentina!
We crossed the border from Villazon, Bolivia to La Quiaca, Argentina a little over a week ago. Another uneventful border crossing (nice!), although the wait was more than 2 hours because we got...
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We have already developed quite an extensive list of our favorite food places in town after only a week. Granted some of these are familiar to us from our visit last March, but most are new to us and the result of just walking the streets, exploring, willing to try new foods.
You can get...
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During the past week we have been asked “why we like Cotacachi” by our friends and family. I decided to spend some time thinking about this question and try and get an answer on paper.
This is OUR answer and won’t fit everyone’s situation. In fact, our guess is that it won’t fit the sensibilities of...
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Our 2 weeks in Jaco are up and we are heading to San Jose. Actually, the bus runs to San Jose but we will take a detour to Alejuella.
This is our 5th or 6th move since we set out from Oregon on August 1st…bound for lands unknown. I am not counting, but we...
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Housing in Ecuador is inexpensive when compared to North America prices. During our trip to Ecuador in March we spent time looking at a number of different properties that were for sale, some large commercial/hotel type properties to small 2 room homes.
A formal real estate system does not exist in Ecuador, although there are a...
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