So what if we didn’t ‘move’ to a country, what if we just maxed out the 90 day visitor privilege and became senior nomads? 3 month rentals seemed to be readily available in most countries I looked at and the whole point of getting out of Oregon was to avoid snow and cold.

We both have enjoyed our limited travels but always felt rushed – 10 days in France, 10 days in New Zealand, not enough time to really enjoy the country except on a very superficial level. The 4 years we spent in England was an awesome time but we had young kids, we didn’t have much money and 4 years seemed like a lot of time, that we never felt any pressure to get things seen, so we wound up missing quite a lot.

The question then became, could we reduce our lives to a big suitcase and a backpack each, and just be nomadic seniors? 90 days per country should be long enough to really get a feel for a place but short enough that we would feel some small pressure to see what we wanted to see. I was pretty confident that I could do that and she’s game to give it a try.