Stay Safe, Be Kind
It’s Wednesday at 7 pm and the church bells are ringing. I’m used to them ringing for either something to celebrate (royal wedding) or something serious has happened (royal death), so I was a...
Category: Travel
Posts that mention or talk about travel we’ve taken or are planning on taking.
Event Planner’s Haiku
A friend of mine encourages people to make 5-7-5 haiku’s on Wednesdays. I decided to join in with my current life events. body is fatigued months of work on fun events not so fun...
Enjoying the Local Currency
We track our spending with accounting software, so doing every purchase via our bank card makes tracking a lot easier. When we first got to the Netherlands, though, we didn’t have a Dutch bank...
Guide: Airport Customs and Immigration
If you are coming to visit us in the Netherlands (as I hope you are!), and you are flying in from another country, you will go through Customs and Immigration at the airport. Not...
BGGCON 2018, Thanksgiving, and Heading “Home”
It’s amazing how time can fly by so quickly. I remember when I was a child how a year seemed a long time, and now I can blink and two months go by. My...
Dutch Adventures: Week Five
Week Five: Boardgaming, Immigration Progress, and Maeslantkering The week covering Sunday 9 September to Saturday 15 September. This week I came out of the headache cluster (eventually), we played some games, visited IND, looked at apartments,...
First Trip Back to US
Five Beds, No Waiting, or, Would You Like to Get on a Plane In the space between November 1 and November 19, Billy and I slept in 5 different beds (technically 6 for him)...
Dutch Adventure: Week Two, Part 1
Week Two of our Dutch Adventure Monday 20 August 2018 – Let’s go rent bicycles! You can generally find places to rent a bicycle for the day, for about €10 per day, in most...
Diary Entry: Friday 10 August and Saturday 11 August, 2018
Moving Diary, Friday to Saturday; Flight from Denver to Salt Lake City on Friday, then Salt Lake City to Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam. Entry date: 13 August, 2018 (Monday) The Domestic Flight We flew...
Are You Packed?
One of the biggest questions we’ve been getting is “are you packed?” Answer: Kind of. Here’s the longer answer. We own a house in Colorado (ok, technically the bank owns it, but you get...