Bronzans On The Loose!

  A few weeks ago, an American who has lived in Granada for several years arranged for a gathering at a local coffee shop for new and “old” expats to come together and meet one another.  They do this every year to welcome new families to the city.   One woman, who has been living here for eight years, told me that families come in like waves on the beach.  Every fall a wave of new expats comes crashing in.  A year later it pulls back and while a few stay, most return to the lives they left behind. At this coffee meeting, I met a man who likes to mountain bike in Granada.  He gave me some tips about the local trails.   I explained that I had run to the end of the Camino del Sacromonte, where the pavement stops and the road becomes gravel.   I have been intrigued by this path and asked him if he had ever gone further than I had.  I’d thought about venturing on alone, but I wasn’t sure if it was a public or private road. He enthusiasti...

When we took our trip to Europe in 2018, I would blog about running in Croatia because I was the only person in our family experiencing running in a foreign country.  Now, I’m fortunate because I have Olivia to be my running buddy.   Since we arrived in Granada, we’ve explored many of the area’s amazing trails.  We know there are so many more trails to discover and run.  Running has allowed us to explore and navigate the city without GPS and create a map within our minds.  Occasionally I get turned around and I have to pull out the phone, but more often than not, we just “figure it out”.  Before Olivia went back to school, we had a lot of time to kill, so if a run that was supposed to take 1 hour, took 2 because we were lost, it wasn’t that big of a deal.   The hardest, but also the greatest, part about running in Granada are the hills.  We live on a giant hill and we feel like we are either going up or going down the hill.  When on...

It's hard to believe, but we're just two days away from our flight.  I had planned to pop in and update everyone on our progress.  Yeah, that didn't really happen. Livi has assured me that once the trip starts, she is going to take the torch as the main voice of Bronzans on the Loose.  I assume that will mainly be on Instagram, but hopefully I can get her to pop in here from time to time. Things are going well.  Our pre-trip prep has gone well and there are only a handful of tasks left to complete.  We've had a lot of questions so I thought I'd answer some of them here. What are you doing with the house?   As our intention is to return to Fort Wayne a year from now, we're hanging on to the house.  Through friends of a friend, we have found a family that is looking to rent a house for a year.  We have met them a couple of times and they seem like very nice folks.  We've packed up our personal effects and stored them in the house.  Sh...

At long last... an update.  When this blog was last heard from (in September 2021), we'd been living in Fort Wayne, Indiana for six months.  I wrote a follow-up about six months later, but, after reading it, I decided it was too personal to be interesting to anyone else.  I talked about the ups and downs of our life in the Midwest, but I got bogged down with some of my frustrations with our country.  Spend any time with me or Tiffany and I'm sure you'll know what we're talking about. So the blog went silent.  For nearly two years... But we're back. With big news to report, it seems like the perfect time to stir up the blog again and see what happens.   As dedicated followers will surely remember, "Bronzans on the Loose" was started in 2018 when we sold our house in Sonoma County and spent the summer in Europe.  The idea was that we could each pop in and give updates with our own unique perspectives from our adventures.  While some of us did b...