Today was the day! One of those 717 resident permits issued in 2009 had my name on it! What an ordeal that turned out to be.
I can’t find anything that I wrote about the harrowing final step of the immigration process, the initial denial or a photo of my first DNI that did not have the word “foreigner” posted in big ol’ red letters:
Then again, 2009 was a big transition year for me. The Line of Sight blog wouldn’t see a reincarnation until the following year, I’d take a break from working for Rick Steves, I started to date, I considered moving to Lisboa, Endless Mile was about to launch… with all that going on, I can understand why I might not have taken time to write in my journal or online. Surely I’ll find the story somewhere because that is a tale worth telling 😉
Stay tuned…
[A little lo-fi nostalgia… original content from Line of Sight, reposted in 2024 to commemorate 20 years of blogging. Learn more.]