Monday, January 29, 2024

Happy New Year, Surprising Lessons Learned😲, and An eBook Sale

 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.

La Penita de Jaltemba Beach and Coral Island
You might like to read my latest article, Our Tour of La Penita de Jaltemba, Nayarit While Walking to Breakfast, Shopping, and Errands: We See So Much While Walking Downtown and Back Home!

A View of La Penita Looking Toward the Ocean

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!

Jon Sanding the Paint Off of the RV Floor

Read more HERE.

Thank you for reading my articles and books.

Don't miss this 99-cent eBook sale on Living in Mexico Lessons Learned! (Limited time only)

Cheers,

Terry



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