Thursday, January 23, 2025

Last night I went to bed at 10, got up once during the night, finally waking/getting up at 5am.

Expat: do you have any recommendations for travel health insurance?

After breakfast I laid down to rest for a bit but couldn’t fall asleep.

I left at 9am and met Marcos at Tostao café where we had café con leches. I told him about our Chicago trip and he suggested I ask one of my kids to add me to their auto insurance for a month. He also told me Johanna is now on a weight loss drug. He left at 10am and I moved to Peccato where I had a latte. At 11am I left and stopped in Mercado Madrid where I bought a few things before returning to the apt.

I left the apt at 2pm and walked to the mall. Stanley has their own booth selling those drink containers that have become so popular in the US.

I went up to Banco Sudameris where I withdrew 2,000,000 pesos, all 100s, from their Servibanca ATM. I stopped in Decathlon looking for carabiners to assist with our trip but the only ones they had were for hiking. I went down to Urbania where I had a latte while doing some chess puzzles.

I noticed this new furniture store, Ambiente,

I remember seeing one in El Tesoro and they have a café/restaurant I’ll have to try.

I left at 4pm, bought 3 limes in Exito that Teresa requested and returned to the apt by taxi.

I watched another episode of Squid Game while Teresa was getting a massage from Kelly.

I finished reading Lee Child’s One Shot (Jack Reacher #9), my first (free) library book. Now do I have to check it back in to free it for someone else, or just let the 2-week time period expire? Perhaps the only reason I read it so quickly was because I read some on the bus last Sunday.

 

EL ARROYO