my nice little life

Sherry is doing the Blogging this time:     I made it! The trip was very easy. Good weather, no large crowds, planes running on time. No problems. The USAir plane to Mexico City wasn’t full — a sign of our economic times, I suppose.       After immigration and customs, I tried to find AeroMexico, but didn’t [...]

I spent 3 weeks in Oaxaca attending the Español Interactivo.  Here is my experience. Location & building: This school is located within a couple of blocks of the traditional Mexican city center, the zócolo.  To enter, you pass through the outside wall via two tall, beautiful wooden doors.  The doors lead to the office and [...]

There are not enough words to express the level of satisfaction that I had at Español Interactivo, but I’ll try my best. First, some incidentials, that I’m finding more and more important. For those of you that travel with your computer and need a free WIFI connection, the school provides a strong signal on site. [...]

My wife started learning Spanish just over three years ago.  At that time, she knew enough Spanish to order off the Taco Bell menu.   She was 55 years old.  She had only had two other language experiences.  One – as a freshman in high school, she had a year of French.  But in the middle [...]

  A few years ago, I sat down with my maps and books and made a list of every place we wanted to go in the world.  I was methodical.  I did it continent by continent, country by country.  I even mentioned if there were a particular adventure or activity that we wanted to see. [...]

As you probably know, I have several other websites.  It’s become something of a chore (and expense) to keep up with all of them, so I’m going to sell a couple of them.  Not this one, though.  I’m keeping My Nice Little Life. Rather than just lose all the postings I’ve done over the years, [...]

  I truly hope that you have a wonderful Christmas – and that the New Year is even better than the year before.  Merry Christmas everyone.

Say hello to Marvin Floyd Lindquist – Sherry’s dad and the newest resident of our nice little life. Note the tan.  He’s a long time resident of Florida (after retiring from Ford motor company at a very early age thanks to a buyout).   He’s been living in a retirement community in Port Charlotte for quite [...]

Sorry that I’ve not been keeping up with the blog lately, but we’ve had a death in the family.  While we were in Spain (mid October), we learned that Sherry’s stepmother Kathy had been diagnosed with lung cancer.  As soon as we got home, Sherry went to Florida, where Kathy and Marvin (Sherry’s dad) live, [...]

                                             The writing is on the wall – we’ll go next year.   As you may remember, we had three choices for our Mexico trip.   A  1500 mile bus ride, two months in Queretaro studying Spanish, or a combination of the two, with studying for a much shorter period of time (and in more than [...]