To Belize or Not to Belize? Is Belize your next travel destination? It should be… There are lots of things to consider when choosing a vacation destination. I’ll assume you’ve already decided on a warm and sunny beach destination. With no shortage of beautiful, tropical hot spots in the Caribbean, how do you narrow it down? I’d like to explain why you should consider Ambergris Caye, Belize. Amazing seafood dish from Mambo Restaurant at Matachica There are no major fast fo

So many people have reached out to us along our journey with words of encouragement and support. The most common thing we hear is how envious people are and wanting to know how we did it. In my last post I explained how we did it, but I left out the two most important things required because they both need a bit of explaining: Money and guts. We’ve been here a month and a half and I can already see why the locals are skeptical of expats moving here and actually staying here.

We purchased beachfront land in an area called ‘Palmero Point’.   We came back to Canada and carried on with life as usual, occasionally discussing our future paradise home.   We wanted to build a home and have a couple of vacation rental units in it.  Lots of discussion of other ideas, too but this was the main goal.   As the stress kept piling up on both of us, Aaron started pushing to make the move sooner.  I kept pushing back that we needed to save more money first.  It w