The Truth About Mexico!

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Site Unseen

Four years ago we were storing what we hadn’t sold, discarding unwanted Robin bookshelves, packing away winter clothes and sorting through out summer items, deciding what we we were bringing and what would not be appropriate in our new lives as tropical expats e.g., bridesmaid dresses, tube tops, mittens. Our last days were spent among [...]

23Jun2010 | Jillian | 3 comments | Continued
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The Leavers

We’ve left home. We are officially on the road. This morning we said goodbye, got into a rental car and drove off, wiping away tears. The fog lifted as we drove deeper into the peninsular jungle and soon the sky was brightened blue. We listened to music and watched mexico out the window. We had [...]

22Jun2010 | Jillian | 3 comments | Continued
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Everything is Everything

Fay Weldon said, “Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens”, which is where we are today, the first day of June, 2010. It’s all happening. One week from today my best friend, maid of honor, and traveling companion is coming for a girl getaway to the Caribbean. We’re going to Isla Mujeres, Playa [...]

1Jun2010 | Jillian | 2 comments | Continued
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(Not so) Far from the Madding Crowd

Sweltering and cramped in our attic apartment, we looked into the magic mirror to a place where concrete framed the complementing elements of sky and water. We decided then (2005) and there (East Rock, New Haven, Connecticut, The World, The Universe) that we would flee it all and land on the beach, own our first [...]

5May2010 | Jillian | 4 comments | Continued
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Caveat Empty or Let The Buyer Be Where?

In case we haven’t mentioned it lately, our house is friggin’ awesome. That’s why we named it Casa de Awesome, duh. Maybe it’s snowing where you live but here it’s a lovely 77 degrees with a light breeze, lots of bright sunshine and a true blue sky. Our living room windows and sliding glass doors [...]

24Mar2010 | Jillian | 0 comments | Continued
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The Misfits

What if I’ve become too strange to go back?
strangerinastrangelandyoucantgohomeagainpeoplearestrangewhenyoureastrangertheresnoplacelikehome
These are the fleet streaming thoughts that pluck me out of sleep at four am.
itsabanditsthatarthurmillermarilynmonroemoviehesthemaniaccharacterinagoodmanishardtofind
But I wouldn’t say I’m too terribly anxious.
Not like the months leading up to leaving. I was a wreck, all panic attacks and acting out. Going home is both easier and more frought. [...]

16Feb2010 | Jillian | 2 comments | Continued
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“I don’t need anything except this…and that’s the only thing I need, is this”

In order to arrive in Mexico unencumbered and unbearably light we sold, stored and defenestrated* the majority of our material possessions. (Our spiritual possessions we thought might come in handy) While living in the Suites del Sol, browsing the Sunday markets we aquired Cervantes, you may recall – we plan to go nowhere without his [...]

9Feb2010 | Jillian | 0 comments | Continued
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… And We’re Back (But Not For Long)

 
As it turns out, as we have proven, you can abandon your pressboard life, board a plane to a place you’ve never been and carve out an existence – and a pretty sweet one at that – in an uncanny valley far, but not too far, from home. We didn’t drop off the edge of [...]

2Feb2010 | Jillian | 6 comments | Continued