Is it weird that I enjoy doing laundry now? And I don't just mean popping a load in the washer and then moving it to the dryer 45 minutes later. I mean hand washing items and hanging them on a line to dry in the sun. We do have a washing machine in our rental now, but last year in Mexico, we didn't. We either had to walk to a laundromat with duffle bags full of clothes and towels, or we could hand wash items in the concrete basin in our patio. The basin had a faucet and built

Two Months as Digital Nomads in Greece After getting settled in Greece, it's time for some unfiltered reflection... We have explored beautiful places, made new friends, and struggled with housing and visa woes. Here's the reality behind the scenic posts. The Good Social Scene After just a few weeks in Chania (Han-ya), Crete, we were already plugged into the digital nomad community here. There are 20+ WhatsApp chat groups with themes from Board Games to Hiking, Cooking and Spo

Tasting platter and 8 types of honey provided at Idiosmos, in the village of Pervolakia, Crete Crete is a huge island with a diverse agricultural industry. The geography creates multiple microclimates which yield a wide range of produce and products from olives and honey to kiwi and avocados. They even grow bananas and pineapples in the southeast! Our tasting tour in the Chania region focused on: Olive Oil, Cheese, Bread, Honey, and Wine. First stop: Vouves Village- Home of t

Stunning...Other-worldly. These are the only words I can use to describe the unique beaches we visited in the past two weeks. Crete is a huge island with 650 miles of coastline and boasts many notable and beaches. Elafonissi (el-a-fo-nee-see) Beach and Balos Beach are perhaps two of the most famous beaches on the island; well-known for their remarkable shallow waters and expansive lagoons that are so shallow you can frolic endlessly in their shin-height waters. We took day tr

A Bittersweet Farewell to Washington State We spent a lovely summer in Washington State, where I fulfilled the end of my contract managing a women's leadership institute for work. After nine years of working on this program every summer, it was bittersweet to hand it over to a new team. I will be forever grateful for the opportunity to be a part of so many young women's leadership journeys and am so happy to remain in touch with many of them to this day. This image is AI-gene

If you've been keeping up with my blog, you'll know that the Mediterranean was our first choice destination to move to, due to the weather, food, scenery, and people. But we chose Mexico in order to make the move easier on our oldest cat, Sitah. Sadly, she developed cancer just after we arrived in Mexico. She passed away a few months later in December, just two months shy of her 18th birthday. We were heartbroken to say goodbye, but grateful that she got to enjoy her final da