We are now 60 days until liftoff! Eeek! The majority of information we have about an international move has been gleaned from Facebook Groups, so sometimes, the information we anticipated turns out to be...inaccurate. All along, our plan has been:-Buy a One-Trip, 20' container;-Fill it with the things we have to take with us. Essentially no furniture, but tools, bikes, garden equipment, fis ...

Before we leave the U.S., we have a laundry list of affairs to handle, many of which are: A. Not exciting; B. Have been put off for years. One that we certainly should have completed a long time ago was to create a Revocable Trust for our assets. We did start the process maybe 18 months ago; we had a referral to an estate planner who, for the low-low price of $4,500, would send us a packe ...

Today, we have 63 days until we move from Phoenix, Arizona to San Pedro, Belize. Our home is for sale, and I am conversations with a few different container shippers, trying to get a better feel on the steps, process, timelines...most want to hop on a call, which I loathe - I would much rather communicate via e-mail, so I have a "paper trail" and it makes it easier to relay information to Na ...

Our home has officially been listed for sale! We're Pack Rats to the bone - it took me a solid ten days of decluttering, cleaning, hosting a Moving Sale, and more to be ready for photos. On top of that, we also cleared out the boys' (now men, technically) rooms, since they had a bit of hodge-podge furniture from our previous home. We moved here December of 2021, knowing we didn't plan to be ...

It has been ten years in the making, which felt like it took forever. And now, our departure date is coming in HOT! At my last work event in Las Vegas, I opened the above fortune, and it was all I had in me to not burst into laughter! I have resigned from my position as the Director of Sales & Marketing for a General Contractor in Phoenix, Arizona, with 100 days until we move. It quickl ...

This will be our view every morning. If that is not enough to at least entice you to visit Belize, allow me to expand on how we chose this Central American country for our retirement. In 2001, I found myself unexpectedly unemployed. Single, 24, and with unlimited vacation days, I started to venture out on my own. Mind you, I had only received my passport three years earlier, when friends ...