We plan to post more frequently than once a week, but this week was A LOT! Over the past week, we: Adventures like this always come with some learning experiences — it’s the unknown unknowns that will get you every time. For example, we learned that after you sell your last car, your auto insurance
Tonight is the last night we are spending at our home here in the U.S. While we’re so excited to go, we’re going to miss our kids and the friends we made here. We hope that this isn’t goodbye, but rather “À bientôt!” (see you soon). We’ve sold our last piece of furniture and made
One of the most frequent questions we get about this adventure is “But Why France?” As a life-long US resident, I understand why France not everyone’s first thought when the conversation turns to where one might go if not the US. Here are some great reasons why we are choosing France for our big adventure:
Home of Joan of Arc, Orléans, France is our first stop in our French chapter. It’s a beautiful city about an hour south of Paris in the Loire Valley. We plan to spend a little over a month in this beautiful and historic
We received our French visas yesterday, just a mere SIX DAYS after our appointment! We couldn’t believe how fast the process was and the turnaround time was incredible. We had been prepared to wait a few weeks. I can’t say enough good things about how smooth the process was once it was underway. We got
We applied for our visa today through VSF Global in Seattle. We’ve been preparing our documentation for weeks to be sure we had everything just right. Now, fingers crossed we are successful and we can move forward on our plans to be in France in
Starting this blog is the first step towards documenting our journey to spend a year in France, exploring cities and our first year of retired life together. We’ve dreamed together for years, wanting to find a way to spend more time seeing the world. It took a long time, but we’ve finally figured out how