When I was ill in my twenties, at one time my goal was to get better so “I could drink beer again”. A bit of a shallow statement but what it really meant was ‘I want to have my life back and be able to enjoy life. I had a mix of health issues and…

Xela, Guatemala – a great place for kids to learn Spanish. Sometimes – quite often actually – when you travel internationally roaming this glorious planet we live on as a nomad or like us, a nomadic family, you come upon opportunities you didn’t realize even existed. The ‘it just happened’ type of scenario. Or ‘that…

Oh bite me, was the first line of thought as I pondered whether I really HAD to start a Facebook page for this new website. I’m not interested in re-inventing the wheel, but this site is not intended to become a large corporate money-making venture so why bother? Those were my second thoughts. I’ve also…

Note: This is a follow-up post to Fukushima Nuclear Fallout – Should We Evacuate? The sky isn’t just falling, it already fell and if in the U.S. on the West Coast you and your family are being irradiated, you’d better move south or to the Southern Hemisphere quickly, to prevent getting Thyroid cancer or other…

Fukushima nuclear fallout – should we evacuate? I’ve learned that the current place we’ve dropped down for awhile after our return to the U.S. is now supposedly one of the worst places to be post 311 – the date of the March, 2011 Japan earthquake and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster. We are in Oregon…