In late September 2020 we arrived in Spain, where we plan to live for the next couple years. It’s something we’d been planning for a while and a move that looked less likely earlier in 2020 given the COVID pandemic. People have a lot of questions about the move, what it’s like given COVID, so this blog aims to answer some of those queries. Who in their right mind would move to another country in the middle of a pandemic? We did, but no one ever said we were in our right minds. So why did we do it? Because John Lennon was right: life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. The pandemic helped us see that life is uncertain, potentially fleeting, and best lived to the fullest. Once Spain got far enough out of their lockdown that it didn’t seem like a dire situation, we didn’t see it as any riskier than staying in the USA, assuming we were careful and conscientious in many of the same ways we had been there. COVID-19 Restrictions: Masks Aren’t Something You March in the ...