Don Chavez
@Avenger Azul
American looking for information about Ecuador
Forum posts
15
About me
American
Lives in Round Rock, Tx
Speaks English/Enough Spanish to get me arrested
Registration: 02 July 2015
About
Occupation
I am Retired.
My expat journey
Cuenca, Ecuador
Retirement fun
Hotel management
The people, weather, cultural history
Not applicable
Cuenca, Ecuador
Retirement adventures with my wife and cultural anthropological studies
Former telecom, hotel management
The people, the weather, the possibilities
Not applicable in any sense
USA
Activity
Cuenca: The adventure begins by Avenger Azul
Greetings from the almost leaving Round Rock TX. My beautiful, recently retired wife, Louise and I (Don), will be moving to Cuenca on 10/8/15 as we just bought our airline tickets last night. All of "papers" are in order, except for ...
No, not exactly. What I meant by total immersion was that I would frequent more local as opposed to just expat locales. I will take the Spanish classes and put myself in situations where Spanish must be spoken and explain to the people I am ... Read More
Cuenca: The adventure begins by Avenger Azul
Greetings from the almost leaving Round Rock TX. My beautiful, recently retired wife, Louise and I (Don), will be moving to Cuenca on 10/8/15 as we just bought our airline tickets last night. All of "papers" are in order, except for ...
Louisb333, Thank you for your reply. Our plan is exactly as you laid out. We plan a lot of walking in and around El Centro. Being a cultural anthropologist at heart, my plan is to visit as many churches, museums, farmers markets, artisan shops, ... Read More
Cuenca: The adventure begins by Avenger Azul
Greetings from the almost leaving Round Rock TX. My beautiful, recently retired wife, Louise and I (Don), will be moving to Cuenca on 10/8/15 as we just bought our airline tickets last night. All of "papers" are in order, except for ...
Birdmama, Go to theDOGter.net and it will guide you through the process. This applicable for U.S. airlines. Don (Avenger Azul) Read More
Cuenca: The adventure begins by Avenger Azul
Greetings from the almost leaving Round Rock TX. My beautiful, recently retired wife, Louise and I (Don), will be moving to Cuenca on 10/8/15 as we just bought our airline tickets last night. All of "papers" are in order, except for ...
Ipuccio721, Arriving 10/9 in Cuenca. Would be glad to meet up. As new expats, we can start building new networks of friends. We meet some people there last year on our exploratory, so we have some grounding. We've rented a vacation property ... Read More
Cuenca: The adventure begins by Avenger Azul
Greetings from the almost leaving Round Rock TX. My beautiful, recently retired wife, Louise and I (Don), will be moving to Cuenca on 10/8/15 as we just bought our airline tickets last night. All of "papers" are in order, except for ...
AMDG, Thanks for the driving tips. But for the time being, we'll be content to be chauffeured about. After driving around in the worst traffic cities in, to what I am now referring to El Norte, I'll just get in a cab and pray for success. ... Read More
Cuenca: The adventure begins by Avenger Azul
Greetings from the almost leaving Round Rock TX. My beautiful, recently retired wife, Louise and I (Don), will be moving to Cuenca on 10/8/15 as we just bought our airline tickets last night. All of "papers" are in order, except for ...
After we received the FBI report, we mailed it the Fed. Secretary of State office for their apostille process, got it, we did the same with the state of Texas (that was more of a manual process, but Austin is the state capital, a 10 minute ride ... Read More
Cuenca: The adventure begins by Avenger Azul
Greetings from the almost leaving Round Rock TX. My beautiful, recently retired wife, Louise and I (Don), will be moving to Cuenca on 10/8/15 as we just bought our airline tickets last night. All of "papers" are in order, except for ...
Affirm. We included all the self addressed overnight envelopes with our submissions. Read More
Cuenca: The adventure begins by Avenger Azul
Greetings from the almost leaving Round Rock TX. My beautiful, recently retired wife, Louise and I (Don), will be moving to Cuenca on 10/8/15 as we just bought our airline tickets last night. All of "papers" are in order, except for ...
Thanks for the info on the driving stuff. But based on our experience when we checked out Cuenca last year, I can think of better ways to risk my life than trying to navigate those traffic circles. And I cut my teeth driving in L.A., New York City ... Read More
Cuenca: The adventure begins by Avenger Azul
Greetings from the almost leaving Round Rock TX. My beautiful, recently retired wife, Louise and I (Don), will be moving to Cuenca on 10/8/15 as we just bought our airline tickets last night. All of "papers" are in order, except for ...
The FBI process start to finish only took us a little over a week (much to our surprise). But based on the info my wife got on the expats Facebook site, we will finish the process in Ecuador to avoid any hassle. Don Read More
How many personal cellphones can I bring into Ecuador? by Avenger Azul
I'm so confused. 馃槺 I have read and read and still can't figure it out with so many different comments. Looking for a number. How many cellphones can I bring in. I'll have one on my person and was going to bring 3 more used ...
Thanks for the advise on alcohol. Was only was going to bring in one bottle of Chivas I have left unopened for the last 8 years, then, well as I thought about it, decided I needed a drink and well, problem solved itself. Quite smooth, the age ... Read More
How many personal cellphones can I bring into Ecuador? by Avenger Azul
I'm so confused. 馃槺 I have read and read and still can't figure it out with so many different comments. Looking for a number. How many cellphones can I bring in. I'll have one on my person and was going to bring 3 more used ...
Thank you for that response, simple and to the point my friend. Don Read More
Cuenca: The adventure begins by Avenger Azul
Greetings from the almost leaving Round Rock TX. My beautiful, recently retired wife, Louise and I (Don), will be moving to Cuenca on 10/8/15 as we just bought our airline tickets last night. All of "papers" are in order, except for ...
Gardner1, Any specific questions? We can address the process we we thru in the Austin Secretary of State office, which was pretty painless. Allow enough time so you mail in the required paperwork, rather than an in-person application and it should ... Read More
Cuenca: The adventure begins
Greetings from the almost leaving Round Rock TX. My beautiful, recently retired wife, Louise and I (Don), will be moving to Cuenca on 10/8/15 as we just bought our airline tickets last night. All of "papers" are in order, except for ... Read More
How many personal cellphones can I bring into Ecuador?
I'm so confused. 馃槺 I have read and read and still can't figure it out with so many different comments. Looking for a number. How many cellphones can I bring in. I'll have one on my person and was going to bring 3 more used ... Read More