Working Abroad Adventure: Week 1
Kia and I have been talking, for years, about the possibility of living and working abroad for a period of time. We love living in Oakland — the Bay Area has an amazingly high quality of life, and...
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When I last left the dear reader I was in a black mood, heading to the storage shed to fetch a machete. A thought had entered my mind; the remedy to my grumpiness was in doing something I could only …...
View ArticleWorking Abroad Adventure: Week Two-And-A-Half
I’m in the midst of a six week “working abroad adventure.” The idea: rent a house in the jungle on the Caribbean side of Costa Rica, and attempt to do and deliver all our work remotely (Kia is a...
View ArticleWorking Abroad Adventure: Weeks 3 and 4
I can’t believe there are only ten days left in our 6-week working abroad adventure — the time has zipped by (for the most part — it has also crawled along at times). We’re in the home stretch of an …...
View ArticleWorking Abroad Experiment Wrap-up, Part I — What We Did Right and What We Did...
Today is the last day of our Costa Rica “workation“; right now we’re at The Hemingway Inn in San Jose (CR) and we fly back to San Francisco tomorrow. Six weeks flew by — at least that’s how it feels …...
View ArticleWorking Abroad Experiment Wrap-Up Part II — Financial Results
We’ve been back from our Costa Rica “workation” for three weeks as of today. It has taken that long for me to feel like life in Oakland (blessedly temperate with very few biting bugs, but much farther...
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