Hi Everyone…

by Brian on July 20, 2010

It’s been a minute since our last post.

We landed back in Southern California just over 4 weeks ago. We stayed with family for the 1st 3 weeks while we found a nice house up here in the San Bernardino mountains in the national forest.

It’s amazingly beautiful… We’re at over 7K feet and near snowboarding and skiing havens, so we’re definitely going to get some snow this winter.

The summer here is absolutely perfect… It’s been in the mid 80s and it’s very low humidity around 20-25%.

We have a nice house nestled back on a quiet street not too far off from the main drag.

We have no neighbors to 3 sides of us, we’re the last house on our side of the street with only one house on the other side of the street. Here are a couple of pictures of our new back yard.

The girls are loving our new home. Zoë is getting bigger by the day and Kaylee is already sitting up on her own… She’ll be mobile in the next week or so via scooting on the floor.

Zoë giving a BIG SMILE

Kaylee showing her personality

There are a lot of squirrels, chipmunks and a wide variety of birds that Zoë loves to watch.

Kaylee loves playing with her big sister.

The stars are amazing. Zoë really loves looking at the stars too.

We’re loving our new home. If we continue to love our new home through our 1st mountain winter, we may stay here a while.

So what’s happening to Exploring Uruguay?

We’ve enjoyed creating this website and blog over the past year. We’ve met a ton of people and made a few good friends.

We’re going to archive our blog for people to read and learn from our experiences and keep the information on our site up to date.

If you still want to follow us and what we’re doing, you can follow us on Chrystal’s Happy Mothering blog.

If you follow Chrystal’s Happy Mothering blog, you know it hasn’t been updated since before we left Uruguay. It’s getting a face-lift and we’ll be posting on it regularly within the next couple of weeks.

Thank you for following us and best of luck to you.

Brian, Chrystal, Zoë and Kaylee

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Stuff Is Going Fast

by Brian on June 8, 2010

Because we’re moving back to the U.S. next Thursday, we’re having a moving sale.

First off, thank you to everyone who has responded… Literally half of our stuff we are selling has already been sold.

That leads us to the stuff that hasn’t been sold… We have some great deals on a quite a few things…

If you’d like to see a full list of everything go to http://www.ExploringUruguay.com/MovingSale

Thanks again for your support,

Brian, Chrystal, Zoë and Kaylee

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Uruguay Taxes… Don’t Be Alarmed

June 7, 2010

Today’s blog post is a guest post by Juan Fischer, the managing partner of Fischer & Schickendantz. Juan wrote the following post to help alleviate concerns about the proposed tax legislation in Uruguay. Unfortunately, much of what the press articles and blogs have been saying is much more alarming than the reality. It has been said [...]

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Moving Back to the U.S.A. in 2 Weeks

June 3, 2010

Hey everyone…. We are moving back to the U.S. on June 18th. It’s not because of the proposed tax (although that could prevent us from moving back in the future). Uruguay has been a great country to live in for the past year. We’ve met some great people from Uruguay and some wonderful friends from [...]

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New Proposed Income Tax Law In Uruguay

May 31, 2010

There has been a LOT of talk in Uruguay’s Expat Community about the new proposed income tax law in Uruguay. I wrote a blog post when it was 1st announced last Wednesday, you can read the article here. The Uruguay message boards and Uruguay forums have been buzzing with speculations of what is or isn’t [...]

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Watch “The Great Tax Exodus From Uruguay” Begin

May 26, 2010

Okay, the title may be a little dramatic… But, it could be the truth. I just read an article in MercoPress about the proposed changes to the tax laws in Uruguay… This article completely blew me away. Uruguay’s Economy Minister Fernando Lorenzo announced that a new bill has been drafted and is being sent for [...]

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Marijuana in Uruguay

May 21, 2010

This past Saturday May 15th was “Marcha Mundial Marihuana Montevideo – Movimiento por Liberacion del Cannabis” “Global Marijuana March Montevideo – Cannabis Liberation Movement” There was a line up of reggae bands that were going to play… But weather just didn’t go along with those plans. My buddy and I got out to Punta Gorda [...]

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Penarol VS Nacional Wednesday May 12th

May 12, 2010

It’s set to be a great futbol (soccer) match tonight. I think Penarol will win. My buddy Fede is a huge Penarol fan (his Penarol tattoo to the right). I’ve went to a couple of Penarol matches and they are very exciting to watch… Don’t get me wrong, the team is cool to watch… but [...]

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Customer Service in Uruguay

May 10, 2010

There are a lot of different views on the customer service a person receives in Uruguay. We’ve received bad customer service here in Uruguay just like the in the United States, but for the most part it’s pretty decent. From a business point of view, I feel there is a lot of over-employment… too many [...]

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Mr. Musculo Is Awesome

May 5, 2010

A few months ago, I spilled chicken grease all down the left leg of one of my favorite pairs of jeans. I thought the jeans were a lost cause. I washed them 5-6 times (and line dried them), to no avail. We found Mr. Musculo at the store (we’ve seen it in both Disco and [...]

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