Tag: 6-month duty free period

Retiring to Ecuador Can Be Stressful? Part 1
Retiring to Ecuador Can be Stressful? Part 1 We moved to Ecuador June 3 of 2016, and love it here, but retirement to a foreign country is not all smooth sailing. Having never retired or moved to a foreign country before, I didn’t expect a hard landing with choppy waters! Given my years […]

Fluffing our Nest: Prepping to Move into our New House
I can’t believe 2 months have gone by without blogging! Before another month slips away, I want to share some of what we’ve been up to. Mostly it’s been prepping to move into our new house. In a flurry of activity at the end of January, we secured our “Professional Residency Visas,” our cedulas (nat’l ID cards), and bought a […]