Can you maintain hobbies or a business? Tough question. I am an IT guy and I was able to retain some of my clients into my retirement.  I only have phone contact with them, otherwise I do the work online, so I explained that I would be traveling but to leave me a message andRead More »How do we keep up?

Do you want Schengen residency? I don't know why YOU would want Schengen residency, but I know why we want it. Nicke and I are in our 70's, that means our time is running out.  We would like to live, at least some of our remaining years, in Europe. It is a different culture thanRead More »How to get Schengen residency?

Holy Crap, are we out of Schengen time? So what's the deal with Schengen's 90 out of 180 day stay requirement?  The Schengen countries of Europe, which currently (09/2024) number 27 impose a tourist visa restriction by country to their tourist stay time. We are from  the USA, and the automatic tourist visa extended byRead More »How do we know when our Schengen time is running out?

How do you pack for long term travel, anyway?  We get this question from fellow travelers and tourists all the time.  We watched plenty of online videos on this subject but found our own take on it. We only travel with 1 carry-on bag and another smaller bag (Nicke) or a backpack (Fitz). We bothRead More »How do we pack for Long Term Travel?

We considered Moving to Portugal and had started the process to get a D7 Visa when the Portuguese government changed their attitude, so we are actively looking for a different retirement location.

Our 2024 Trip The Adventure Continues We're back in Europe for both retirement fact finding and leisure travel. Our trip is divided into 2 sections, tourism and slow travel. During our travels  we were constantly evaluating the possibility of retiring to each of the places we visited.  We checked real estate prices and found someRead More »How to do ‘Retire Offshore’ Research?