After spending a couple of years planning to go cruising on a sailboat, we were left feeling a little empty after throwing that idea away. We still had the desire to take a one or two year sabbatical and see the world, but now our future was blank. No plans. No goals. Only desires. As I was driving home...

Even though we were not up to crossing oceans on a sailboat, the cruising life was still appealing. We came up with an alternate plan that sounded very reasonable. We would spend a year or two sailing around the Caribbean. With this approach, we would not have to buy a sailboat that was capable of offshore...

My favorite television show when I was a kid was Gilligan’s Island. I thought the castaways were the luckiest people in the world to live in such a beautiful place. Ever since then, I had dreamed of sailing off across the horizon and making landfall at a tropical island paradise. When I finally had...

We had two options for driving the 100 miles to Cancun from the Valladolid area. Drive the free road that went through towns and had numerous topes, and would take the longest amount of time. Or take toll road 180 (cuota 180) that was the fastest route and free of topes, but would cost us money. Our...