Journey & Adventure

Up and down like a see-saw… Round and round like a merry-go-round… Back and forth like a ping-pong ball… Do you get the picture? No? Me neither. Indecisiveness is the name of the game at the moment. I’m not typically an indecisive person, but when it comes to this 5 Year Plan, I can decide which end is up. Those of you that have been around long enough know the story. Before we decided to put the 5 year plan in motion, we had always talked about “wouldn’t it be nice to win the lottery and move to Bonaire”. Then when we heard about how economically one could live in Ecuador, we realized we wouldn’t need to win the lottery to make our dreams come true, but instead we would just need to focus our energy into paying off our debts within the next 5 years and with that “The 5 Year Plan” was born. When started looking into Ecuador in greater detail, we were excited about all of the opportunities that would be available to us like cheap real estate, cheap cost of living,...

I haven’t dropped off the face of the earth – yet.  I just can’t keep up and there are many things in my life that are being neglected.   This Blog – I love blogging, but I haven’t been able to come up with anything interesting or intriguing to say.   Blogger and Gmail has been completely blocked from my work computer, so this makes it extremely difficult to blog or even read blogs.   By the time evening comes along, I have a million other things to do at home and blogging hasn’t made its way up the list.   It frustrates me and I feel like I’ve failed miserably at something that I enjoy doing.     My apologies to everyone…   Exercise – What is that?   Does the hour I spend in physiotherapy for my sore neck each week count?   It’s been at least 3 weeks since I’ve worked out.   Not good…   Me –   Let’s see – I need to get back to eating healthy.   I need a haircut, a pedicure, a manicure, a fac...