OK, I'll fill in a few blanks a la mi vida loca. As the pictures probably make clear to anyone who's been there I was in Hawaii (hence the constant interrogation and security searches) — on Maui. It's a neat place and quite pretty, although I have to admit that I think I liked the people in the Caribbean more and I'm not sure if I liked the dichotomy of America and Islander.
The day we were about to sign a lease, we got confirmation that I'd just inherited a 550 acre waterfront farm in Ontario (worth anywhere between $500,000 and $2 million!), so we came back to deal with the courts on that. However, it's not actually the byproduct of a death, but a court battle, so there's still some uncertainty in all of that… It's definitely possible that it falls through. So who knows where we'll be in a year. We may be back on a tropical island, or maybe even elsewhere. I've got the paperwork to get my EU (German) passport back in order, so because of our wide range of joint citizenships we have a lot of options.
The other reason I'm doing that paperwork is the crashing of the US economy. Personally I think it's going to recover, but as the Euro potentially starts to become the dominant world currency it's increasingly important that I can move fluently in that world as a native. My businesses have taken fairly significant hits due to being US-based, so it's my “Plan B” I suppose.
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