Since returning from my summer in Dalyan, I can say I have checked off nearly everything on my post-move/settle-in to-do list. It has been 2+ months of nesting, arranging, rearranging, shopping, waiting on deliveries and assemblies, and then the unpacking of more boxes and luggage, and final arrangements. I can say that I feel 95% settled. I have a few items to get framed and hung on the walls, but otherwise the major list items…
Not a year ago I shared here about my Next Stage of Life in Turkey. That post talked about my move to a different apartment, a seaside apartment. It had many things to recommend it: incredible view of the sea, lots of storage (the hallway was lined with closets) and built-in closets with drawers in the bedroom, an elevator, a guest bedroom, and it was in a great location for shopping and eating out. But…
This coming summer will mark seven years that I’ve been living abroad as an expat. In those seven years I’ve traveled home to the U.S. five times: for Christmas in 2016, the summers of 2017, 2019, 2020, and then this last holiday gathering, Christmas 2021. My longest break was from the summers of 2017 to 2019 as I moved from Mongolia to Turkey in the summer of 2018. While my employer does fund a ticket…