Bob-Cha off to Panama!

A time and place for every season of life! Standing on the equator outside of Quito Equator! Like so many Americans, we spent a lifetime working and raising our children. We often joked with each other about being "caretakers". We promised that we would always take care of each other and, when the time was right, we would relax and just enjoy our time together.  Living in Florida made that easy. In Central Florida you can turn any day into a vacation at a moment's notice! What some people consider the vacation of a lifetime, Disney World, is just 1.5 hours down the road. We would often take advantage of Disney's Florida Resident Specials and vacation at one of their resorts 2 or 3 times a year.  Port Canaveral, which is ranked as the world’s 2nd busiest cruise port in multi-day embarkations, is just an hour away, so a 3-5 day cruise was also easily accessible and often relatively cheap. However, The real magic of exotic places did not truly take hold unt...

We researched the possibilities and talked to many many people. We came to know that moving out of the United States would be the best retirement plan for us. We are excited and ready for this move, but as you can imagine after living in the same place for over 30 years we have some work to do! In this blog, we will share our experiences and observations. When it comes to questions like should you sell your home or rent it out? Store your furniture or have an estate sale or... try and take it all with you? What does it cost to ship your household to your new location? What are the pros and cons of Panama? Ecuador? Mexico? Kenya? Belize? Portugal? We are telling everything we know and everything we find out as we go, but please know this experience and its many divergent roads will be different for everyone! NOTE: We are not selling tours, real estate, transportation... Nothing. This is just about our adventure and nothing more.  A few of the "immersions" we have experi...