I thought I would resurrect this blog to chronicle the journey Barb and I are about to undertake as we are moving closer to our plan to move to Portugal. We have been talking about this for some time and, in fact, this is the reason we initially got together. We met in early 2022 while attending a conference sponsored by the International Living organization. Each of us attended to get more information about making the move to Portugal. We met and, as they say, the rest is history. We were originally on two different timelines but after my major knee injury/surgery last year, things started to sync up which is how we ended up going to Portugal together last October/November.
I was just down in Arizona visiting Barb for 10 days and while I was there, we finalized our travel plans for our next trip to Portugal with the objective of finding a place to lease in preparation for submitting our application for our long-term visas. We will once again be making a trip to Portugal in November. And while that sounds like a long way away, there is a lot that has to happen in the next 6 months.
As a side note, we also took a trip up to Sedona for a couple of days while I was in Arizona and that was a lot of fun. It’s very pretty. One afternoon, we rented ebikes and spent about 2 ½ hours exploring the area. My heavily abused knees are beginning to appreciate the advantages of ebikes!
We can’t really go to Portugal much sooner than November since Barb has an employment agreement through mid-September as a result of the sale of her CPA practice last year. In addition, I need to sell my house and I have a bicycle ride in the San Juan Islands that I am signed up to do in September. Barb is going to work remotely from Bozeman this summer rather than me spending the summer in Phoenix where it is a bit warm for my taste. In addition to getting the house and most of my possessions sold, we will find time to play here in the Big Sky country.
I have a very long ‘to do’ list and even though it seems like there is a lot of time, there really isn’t. My house will go on the market in about two months (assuming the economy doesn’t crater in the meantime!) and, frankly, that seems a bit overwhelming as I sit here writing this. I’m sure we will get through it. I just thought it would be fun to chronicle this whole adventure.
Let the games begin.