I am a more than a bit behind in updating this blog for our family and friends out there. So I will attempt to bring you up to date in the next few postings. We left off just after the rest of the family joined Reid and I here in Loosdrecht. I then took a…
The Gang is All Here!
July 2018 Mike and kids arrived a Schiphol Airport with Milo and Mia in tow and we could not be more excited to be reunited! I have to hand it to Mike. He accomplished the last of the packing, drove 2 days from Phoenix to San Francisco , boarded himself, two girls, and two large…
Culture Shock: a Retrospect
July 2018 Coming to DSM and the Netherlands has been very positive. I remember my Culture Shock training way back from my Peace Corps days when I traveled to work in Poland, just out of college. As the theory goes, you will find yourself going through four essential phases as you experience a completely new…
Loosdrecht
July 2018 The original plan to have Mike and the girls arrive the first of June has not panned out. Mike is still busy getting Mangas prepped for storage in Mexico and the house is not yet packed. Added to this is the dogs! We have Mia and Milo, our two Airedale Terriers that are…
Travel with Reid continued…
June 2018 After our stay at the Hotel Brimer in Grundhof, Luxembourg, we go to check out Beaufort castle next door. Half of the castle grounds are a maintained museum of the structure, which dates to the 11th century, the other half is a private residence. In the museum area, it is quite impressive to…
Travels with Reid
June 2018 I return to Amsterdam with Reid and, together, we look at the home that we are considering for purchase in the village of Laren. Also in the Het Gooi and not far from the schools, Laren is a small town that, unbeknownst to us at the time, has a reputation of being a…
Het Gooi Bound
May 2018 It is May, one month into the new work situation in the Nederlands. I am not yet in a rental so I am living out of a suitcase, well actually 2 suitcases that are stashed in the back of my Renault Capture. The Renault is from the company pool of leased cars that…
Limburg Province
April 2018 I am a month into working at Royal DSM in The Netherlands. The corporate office is in Sittard in the province of Limburg to the south. So I spent the first 4 weeks working from this office getting acclimated and meeting all of my new colleagues. About a 20 minute drive from…
Two Fronts…
April, 2018 Work in The Netherlands has begun for me. Mike is still in Arizona, waiting for the kids to finish school and trying to get all of our affairs in order. The biggest of these is getting Mangas ready to be stored on dry dock for the coming year. What we know…
The Journey continues….
Four years ago, we stepped off of Mangas and back into our regular routine. We returned to our roots in Arizona and I took a position with a electronic components distribution company headquartered in Phoenix. But, for those of you who know us well, normal routine grounds us for a bit, but our feet…
SV Mangas 