About Us

We retired in Jan 2021 and were enjoying the life we had carved out for ourselves in Big Sky, MT - with lots of hiking, kayaking, skiing, wildlife and good friends.  It was comfortable and fun and familiar.  But we had talked for years and years about becoming expats when we retired, partially because we thought we could live more affordably but mostly because we wanted one more adventure.  We wanted, at least in some sense, to be UNCOMFORTABLE, to be forced to learn new foods, new words, new places, new ways of thinking and new ways of living.  It is most definitely not always easy and some days I second guess myself and wonder what's wrong with me that I just don't want it to be so.  But most days I know for me,  I don't want to go to my death wihtout having lived a new experience.  I don't want 20 more years of doing the same thing - it feels like that would be a waste of the gift of life.  I should take the blessing of time I am given and fill it with something different than I've ever experienced before.  This feels like honoring the gift, taking full advantage of it.

That's the theory. :)  Real life requires real adjustments and Mexico in just 6 weeks has been a series of adjustments, for sure.  I want it - but sometimes it's hard.  So that's why I am here.  Writing about life has always been the way I process it - I learn what I am really thinking by writing it down and being forced to deal with the inconsistencies and the idiosyncrasies.   Maybe some of the things I am facing in a strange new world resonate with some parts of your life, even though you aren't necessarily a fellow expat.  If so, perhaps my ramblings help you dlla with your own indiosyncrasies.  Otherwise, maybe you can just enjoy the schadenfreude. :)