{"id":7564,"date":"2025-08-21T22:42:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T22:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/?p=7564"},"modified":"2025-08-21T22:42:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T22:42:42","slug":"quiet-and-quick-day-not-much-to-add","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/21\/quiet-and-quick-day-not-much-to-add\/","title":{"rendered":"Quiet and Quick Day, Not Much to Add"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Greetings and Salutations!
Man, not a bad day at all, as it positively flew by, as did much of the week. Kind of stunning how quickly life passes by when it’s quiet and mellow. Not much to talk about on the home front. Like I said, it’s been quiet.

I did<\/strong> manage to resist the ‘siren’s call’ of a few really good deals<\/strong> that I found on Palmetto State… sometimes it’s too hard to resist, but in this case, I’m saving for a vacation. I want to go somewhere, quiet, mellow and relaxing. Maybe explore Panama this time around? I found out the pensioner’s visa is like only $1000 a month for necessary income, and that the cost of living in some places is like $600 a month ALL inclusive so to speak.

I’ve also been talking to my boys in Costa… there’s a place for me there too, and I also qualify for a retiree visa there with just my VA retirement as well… It’s tempting to say the least… My only issue<\/strong> with living as an Expat again is the majority of these countries are not <\/strong> ‘firearm friendly’ which puts a major crimp in my preferred lifestyle… although Mother Russia does<\/strong> allow people (after vetting) to have some firepower…

Maybe a cabin in Irkutsk?

Live on the edge quietly, with a Starlink upload and a library full of good books? Lord knows I have bins and bins and shelves of books… Get me a couple of Mosin Nagant rifles and just live quietly in the woods… unbothered and unremembered…

There’s a wee bit of poetic ideas in that isn’t there?

Have to see where things take me…

So that’s pretty much it for tonight. Been gaming again and enjoying the ‘break from reality’. I’ve also been working on a piece that I’m sure will get me banned from traveling to Joly Ole England… in that I’ve got a couple of ideas that’ll really upset <\/strong>the current powers that be… revolutionary ideas if you will… I’ll put it up when it’s done, both here and at the substack.

So More Later
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Greetings and Salutations!Man, not a bad day at all, as it positively flew by, as did much of the week. Kind of stunning how quickly life passes by when it’s quiet and mellow. Not much to talk about on the home front. Like I said, it’s been quiet. I did manage to resist the ‘siren’s … Continue reading “Quiet and Quick Day, Not Much to Add”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7566,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7564\/revisions\/7566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}