Never Retire: One Week Until We Leave America
Unexpected relocation costs and changes. We're rolling with it.
Three themes prevailed in these recent Never Retire newsletter posts:
It pays to plan ahead.
It pays to pay for help with something as multi-faceted as a residence permit.
One of life’s biggest obstacles is overcoming fear—your own and other people’s—to do cool shit.
Two wholly practical items. One partially practical, but more emotional angle related to the move we’re making to Spain. A move that’s—after all of this time planning—one week away.
We fly from LAX to Barcelona on January 2nd, then shuffle off to Valencia on the 6th.
In today’s post, an update. A few unexpected things have happened. None that I’m all that worried about. And one that shows how the universe works in weird ways. Which I will introduce with my favorite holy shit that’s freaky story that somehow connects two seemingly divergent musical artists. Like a really holy shit that’s freaky story. It’s one of those stories I love to tell at every and any opportunity. So I’m surprised I have yet to tell it in the newsletter.
All of this to say I’m super excited one week out. While I feel little bursts of emotion from time to time—like when I saw a picture of my 21-year old daughter on Christmas morning—I have yet to really cry over leaving. I think it has something to do with not only overcoming fear, but acknowledging and experiencing, then overcoming emotion (which sometimes can turn into fear) to do cool shit in life.
I hope the bullet points above and today’s installment summarize succinctly that—in this newsletter—you’ll get the concrete and practical alongside the more abstract elements of doing cool shit in life. Even if that’s not a move abroad for you like it is for me, much of what we discuss adapts to other situations.
Now—my favorite story. And some changes to Spain’s Digital Nomad Visa that we had to adapt to this week.