Why not Argentina?

Two months ago I was sitting in my chair in Hawaii when Mike said, "Would you ever consider living in Argentina?"

"Sure," I said. "Why Argentina?"

"You know I'm always trying to diversify our assets, and this looks like a good opportunity."

And so the conversation began. Mike began researching, and I went back to my reading.

I was curious but not particularly. We've had these conversations about moving elsewhere since our early days together. We've considered (and in most cases visited) the Oregon coast, Costa Rica, Belize, the Dominican Republic, Panama, New Zealand, Mexico, and Nicaragua. In 1996 we made our first move, to Hakalau, Hawaii, where we lived full-time for eight years and currently spend four months of each year.

Why we do this isn't an easy question to answer.

Maybe it's because we started moving early in life. Before we met, Mike lived in Washington, Germany, Oregon, and California; I lived in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Georgia, New York, New Jersey, at least eight different towns/cities in Massachusetts, Switzerland, Greece, and California. Together we've lived in California, Hawaii, and both Carolinas.

Now we're planning our next move. We've traveled to Argentina, bought a lot, begun the house design and building process, and hope to move in the second half of 2011.

Go Go Godzillllla, New Orleans

photographer: RICHARD THOMPSON III
seen: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/richard.thompson.photo?v=feed&story_fbid=313454857460
from: http://www.flickr.com/photos/syf0n/4376435467/

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With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound
He pulls the spitting high tension wires down, Godzilla!

Helpless people on subway trains
Scream BUG-EYED as he looks in on them, Godzilla!

He picks up a bus and he throws it back down
As he wades through the buildings toward the center of town, Godzilla

Oh no, they say he's got to go
Go go Godzilla, yeah
Oh no, there goes Tokyo
Go go Godzilla, yeah

Oh no, they say he's got to go
Go go Godzilla, yeah
Oh no, there goes Tokyo
Go go Godzilla, yeah

Rinji news o moshiagemasu!
Rinji news o moshiagemasu!
Godzilla ga Ginza hoomen e mukatte imasu!
Daishkyu hinan shite kudasai!
Daishkyu hinan shite kudasai!
(Attention, emergency news!
Attention, emergency news!
Godzilla is going toward the Ginza area!
Immediately escape, catch up, find shelter please!
Immediately escape, catch up, find shelter please!)

Oh no, they say he's got to go
Go go Godzilla, yeah
Oh no, there goes Tokyo
Go go Godzilla, yeah

History shows again and again
How nature points up the folly of men
Godzilla!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fight to the Finish

artist: MIHA FURLAN
seen: http://miha-furlan-motorsport-art.blogspot.com/
from: http://miha-furlan-motorsport-art.blogspot.com/2010/01/fight-to-finish.html