CALIENTE TRAVELS
​Ultimate Guide To Moving Abroad With A Spanish or Portuguese Visa

This is going to be super long, and there's a lot of cussing, so I apologize beforehand! If you have been following along, you know we...

I feel like it's been a minute since we have had one of my mimosa blog posts! No one has asked, but I feel like you need it. And yes,...

I am writing this currently, wholly deflated. Imagine a human-size balloon that has been popped and is just lying on the ground...step on...

Today I thought I would tap into my annoyingly unwavering optimism and turn the tone around. Have you ever heard of the Butterfly Effect?...

Helllllooooo allllll. Well, we had to reschedule our flight again. My lawyer emailed checking on the status, and they stated on August...

Cue the 1st world problems bitching. Since you probably have not kept up with the dates, or are maybe reading this much later in the...

Hey everyone!! I am still here and have seemed to come out of my WHY ME phase! As we talk...you read? I am currently sitting in my suite...

Well, here we are. I have waited to write until I was out of my depressive episode where I had lost all hope of going to Spain. I...

I feel like referencing The Shining is pretty accurate right now...You know a writer who slowly goes insane and eventually goes on a...

*****THE CONSULATE STATED THAT THE ORDER OF OUR APPLICATION WAS WRONG AND A FORM IS MESSED UP, NOT SURE WHAT FORM YET. THEY STATED THEY...

As I write, I am currently waiting to hear back from the LA Consulate about whether our initial paperwork is approved. In the meantime, I...

I can't believe the day is here!! This morning the lawyer finally submitted our NLV Visa application packet via e-mail to the LA...

As you can imagine, the timeline I worked out to have everything turned in time was optimistic at best. We officially closed on our house...

I hadn't written about the Visa Saga for a while because everything had been going smoothly, so I was going to wait until we turned in...

Digression 1.0 As we last left off, we were waiting for the certified letter that our government fingerprints are real, so we can have...

In today's episode, we conclude our Apostille series with joy and anticipation.....or do we? bumbumbum. Reader, I apologize. I had every...

In the last episode, we left our protagonists holding their criminal records and debating whether to wait for the birth certificate to be...

If you have made it to this point of our adventure, you haven't read anything yet. The bane of our Visa existence has been getting...

I'm probably going to jump around and not go in order on the Visa steps and talk about them in the order we did them. At this point, we...

My son's attempt at a mad face! In my last post, I talked about the passport process, hopefully, for your sanity, you already have one,...