Cuenca – Return to Ecuador

After six months in our new paradise home of Hawaii, we returned to our second home in Cuenca. We were in for a series of surprises though… As we arrived at the Honolulu airport, I realized that I had forgotten my glasses. Oops. I was nearly blind for the remainder of the trip to Cuenca, […]

New Email Sent Out

After an 18 month lapse, due to pandemic-related travel restrictions, we finally sent out a MindStormPhoto email newsletter today. If you would like to be on future email mailings, no more than once a month, where I notify people of recent postings to our blog, please send me an email asking to be added. All […]

Hawaii – Home

We retired in 2013, and decided to move to Ecuador for an adventure, figuring it would last 2 or 3 years. It has now been 8 years, and we still enjoy Cuenca, but the wanderlust struck again. We came to Oahu for 3 months vacation. Within the first week, we decided it could be our […]

Cuenca Day 20 Lockdown

Along with much of the world, we have been put under “Shelter In Place” restrictions since March 17th, 2020. Today is Day 20 of the lockdown for us in Cuenca, and the current projection is for this to continue through April 30th. Ecuador has taken this very seriously, and has put the entire country under […]

Cathedral Domes in Cuenca at Sunset

This is the scene from our living room window at sunset yesterday. After nearly a year of renovation work, the cathedral domes were finally finished while we were traveling the last couple months. I captured this time-lapse last night.

Joys of Home Ownership

We love our new apartment here in Cuenca.  One of the things we were glad to be rid of was the ongoing maintenance we had on a California house built in the 1920’s. Seems that follows wherever you own property though… There is a parking lot next to our building, and about a month ago […]

High End Apartment Rental

  The “New Cathedral” is a constant sight from our living room window, but during a few celebrations during the year, it is lighted in the evening, giving us a new nighttime view. Technically the Foundation Day celebration doesn’t start till tomorrow, but a few events jumped the gun and started tonight.  Lighting of the […]

SOLD

  We decided to sell our California house in January 2013, and finally got it on the market in June 2013 (it took longer to pack & give away a lifetime of stuff, plus prep the house than I had expected).  After five months of no offers, we took it off the market in November. […]

Honey, I Shrunk The Condo

More than a year after we started packing to move to Ecuador, and four months after arriving in Ecuador, our container with all our worldly possessions was delivered today!  And somehow, the condo suddenly looks a lot smaller than it did this morning, now that it is buried deep in boxes… ☺ Our container actually […]

Berkeley Home For Sale

  Street View of Our Berkeley Home Now that we are fully ensconced in Ecuador, it is time to sell our home of 26 years in Berkeley, CA.  We had the first broker open house yesterday, with very strong response.  The first public open house will be this weekend.  You can get full listing details […]

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