My wife, Sandy, and I moved to Uruguay in January, 2013. We had already bought a house in Atlántida, Department of Canelones. Later on, we also bought a beach house in Aguas Dulces, Department of Rocha.
In mid-2013 we acquired a rescue dog, whom we named "Betty." She is still with us, and is now 7-1/2 years old. Getting her to the US when we returned was difficult and expensive, but was well worth it.
As you can see from the photograph below, our house had a swimming pool. We knew pretty much everyone in Atlántida's small expat community, and we gave frequent pool parties and dinner parties, especially in the earlier years.
Cleaning the pool was a chore that allowed me to have a year-round, allover tan. That was the good part. It was also a lot of work, and got to be harder as the years went by. It got to be too much, and I'm glad that we don't have a pool now.
Uruguay is a wonderful little country (population a little more than three million, of whom half live in the capital, Montevideo). As we got older, though, it became less practical for us to live there. We both look back fondly on the years we spent there. We returned to the US in April, 2019. Florida has many advantages for us, and we're happy to be here.
We have lived in several countries, and have visited many more. We wouldn't give up any of those experiences.
Text and image Copyright 2020 by Donald C. Traxler aka Donald Jacobson Traxler.
