on day trips with little ones
Obviously, our kids are awesome. But traveling with little kids just isn’t awesome. Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2014
ajijic, where expats abound
Our cars are here! Travel along on our first day trip. Continue reading
Posted in Mexico, Travel
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wheels!
The worst time in every Foreign Service tour is that stretch before your cars arrive. Luckily, those days are over for us. Exactly a month after we got to post, our cars finally got here too. No more taxis! No … Continue reading
the restaurant of the future
Real restaurants with play areas and childcare — expect these to be everywhere in the United States in the coming years. Continue reading
mexican real estate
Aside from the colonial old town, the nicer parts of Guadalajara are extremely modern. Here are a few examples. Continue reading
one of those days
You know those days when something that would be so simple back home is unbelievably frustrating because of cultural or language or whatever other differences? Continue reading
Posted in FS Life, Mexico, Personal
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tacos, tacos everywhere
One of my goals for this tour was to develop a more sophisticated understanding of Mexican food than the tacos and fajitas with which I’m familiar. I’m realizing this may prove more difficult than I expected. In our two weeks … Continue reading
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greetings from guadalajara
We’ve arrived! But our stuff hasn’t. Continue reading
our year stateside
Our stay in the D.C. area is almost up. Just like we did when we left Benin, we’ve decided to put down for posterity some things we’d like Flynn and Jonah to know about this phase of their lives.
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Posted in Baby, FS Life, House, Life in DC, Personal, Toddler
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packed up and packed out
Our stuff is gone, our house is empty, and our many, many suitcases are stacked high in hotel closets. We are officially betwixt and between.
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Posted in Baby, FS Life, House, Life in DC, Toddler, Travel
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