Happy New Year! ¡Feliz Año Nuevo!
We’re learning lessons this month—again. Maybe 2024 will be our “Surprising Lessons Learned as Expats in Mexico” year. Maybe there will be an eBook #6.
One surprising lesson was that we’ve grown to like La Peñita
de Jaltemba, Nayarit, more than we expected. Each month, we spend a week in La
Peñita in our motorhome. Surprisingly, our enjoyment of the fishing village and
our RV grows. Then, when we return to Puerto Vallarta, the contrast makes us
love our condo life even more.
This month’s hardest lesson was that we never
should have painted the bedroom floor of our 2005 motorhome. From
experience, we knew paint would seal a nasty cat urine smell into the wood
subfloor and eliminate it. It worked well! But that was when we installed
carpeting afterward.
But this was different! We were going to install vinyl plank flooring in the RV
bedroom. Jon discovered through his online research that our vinyl
adhesive would not stick to the paint! So we had to sand it all off. That
Home Depot Behr paint/primer is very tough stuff! It took us five days
with an orbital sander, sanding blocks, and 40-grit sandpaper to
return that small area to bare plywood. It was good exercise—a
combination of yoga and mindfulness training!
Read more HERE.
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Cheers,
Terry
