Friday, December 31, 2021

It's time to close the blog

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After 14 years and 1,435 posts, I think it's time to close the blog. When I started, blogging was a new thing. Linking to albums on the ...
Sunday, October 10, 2021

Marathon day!

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It was a perfect day for a run, the weather was good and I had a great support team in Sooz and Marcia. The number of runners were a bit sma...
Saturday, July 31, 2021

A quick running update

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I've found a great alternative for my long weekend training runs. On Saturday mornings, I can take the Waxholms boat (or our own boat) t...
Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Strandbaren Idöborg

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  One of the new additions to our archipelago is Strandbaren restaurant at neighboring Idobörg . The restaurant is part of an expanded faci...
Monday, July 19, 2021

The Migrations Agency

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  The biggest personal impact of Brexit on us was our loss of citizenship in the EU. We were able to stay in Sweden for up to 180 days with ...
Friday, July 2, 2021

The Stockholm Marathon

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The Stockholm marathon is typically run at the end of May every year. I ran it in 1990, 2000, and 2012. I had entered to run it in 2020, but...
Monday, June 21, 2021

Home Sweet Home

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We've made it to our house, and on Midsummer Day, too! I'm happy to report that everything here is in excellent shape. You could har...
Sunday, June 20, 2021

We made it!

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Our welcoming committee! It was a long journey, with lots of moving parts: flights from Florida to Dallas to Paris to Stockholm, covid tests...
Sunday, June 13, 2021

A change in fortune?

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Even though Sweden is still keeping its borders closed for non-EU travelers, other countries in the bloc have opened up to vaccinated Americ...
Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Not good at all.

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I've avoided posting about Sweden's response to the coronavirus over these past months. Suffice it to say that it's been much mo...
Thursday, March 11, 2021

Not looking great

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The vaccine rollout is continuing but much more slowly than any of us would like. Sooz got her second dose on time but I am still waiting fo...
Wednesday, January 6, 2021

Sooz has her vaccine

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  With a little bit of luck and perseverance, Sooz was able to get an early appointment for the coronavirus vaccine. I'll have to wait a...
Tuesday, December 15, 2020

No improvement yet

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The US has maintained its morbid lead since my last post, although both Sweden and the UK are doing their best to catch up. The one glimmer ...
Saturday, September 19, 2020

Things aren't looking any better

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  We've felt pretty safe here in Florida; we are able to do most things outside thanks to the weather. But it's not looking good in ...
Saturday, July 11, 2020

We're not going :(

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  During our road trip, Sooz and I talked a lot about still going to Aspö this summer. We both desperately want to be there. We've been ...
Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Road Trip!

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Since air travel is pretty much shut down these days (and of uncertain safety as well), we decided to take a real road trip for the first ti...
Saturday, May 16, 2020

Should we stay or should we go?

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  I've been watching statistics on Covid closely, trying to decide if we should try to go to Sweden this summer. Although travel is bann...
Wednesday, April 29, 2020

The internet is in! Really!!

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Good news from Annika and Olle, the internet fiber has been installed in our house at last. The junction box is in our bedroom so all I need...
Friday, March 13, 2020

Covid

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Things have moved fast since my last post.  The Coronavirus has taken hold in the USA, and our governor has declared a health emergency. Mos...
Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Christmas and tendon repair

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It’s been an engaging couple of months! We had a wonderful Christmas. Marcia and Rutger joined us and Grant for the Christmas holidays. It w...
Monday, February 3, 2020

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RIP Buddy Holly. 61 years.
Monday, December 2, 2019

Hello from our new home

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It has been a whirlwind few weeks, that’s for sure. We left Sweden to go straight to our new home! Sooz and I wanted to retire in a place th...
Monday, October 14, 2019

Falling way behind on the blog, sorry

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It's been a fantastic summer. Eventful in some ways, and completely non-eventful in others! We have just finished nearly 6 months here o...
Monday, July 1, 2019

The second month!

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Time is really flying, it’s hard to believe we’ve been here two months. June was as busy as advertised. We started the month at Marcia and ...
Saturday, June 1, 2019

The first month

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We arrived to Aspö as planned on May Day, Wednesday the first. The good news is that our shipment arrived into Stockholm as planned on the ...