A King's Life

We’re leaving Belize. We’d like to stay a little longer, but the timing is working out this way. As much as I’ve given San Pedro a hard time, we’ve enjoyed it a thousand fold times more. We love it here and knowing that we will be leaving in one, short little week we’re feeling a [...]

“What is the difference between these two buses, besides the cost?” I asked the guy selling us the tickets. He answered. In fact, I asked this question to about half a dozen people, all with different answers. Noone gave me a straight answer. So, in the spirit of research, we took both. One on the [...]

Guatemala….we’re headed to Guatemala? We never had the inclination to go there, but the suggestion to spend Semana Santa (Easter Week) in Antigua intrigued us. Two other families that we know online, the Lybberts of Living Outside of the Box and the Dennings of Discover.Share.Inspire were going to be there, and we were in need [...]

Costa Rica had been our home for 1 1/2 years.  We loved it there and it is really a beautiful place. We have lived in Belize for 4 months now on the beautiful island of Ambergris Caye.  Island life is completely different than small town Costa Rican life and there are a few things that [...]

We get a lot of different reactions when we tell people that we are ‘permanently nomadic’. Most are surprised that we have chosen to do this while we are young (a compliment to us) and especially with children. Many people wait until they are retired to travel and others think traveling with children is too [...]

On the tail end of a full week with the Denning Family, our great friends from Iowa, the Castenadas, came to visit us. I have been friends with Jessica for over 14 years and she’s been one of the few that has visited me in both Costa Rica and now Belize. Jessica & Salvador have [...]

I thought I was going to be alone all week with the kids. Mr. King had to go back to Costa Rica to firm up some business and banking matters and I was going to be a single mom. I was planning on taking the full week off from work, an increasingly frequent behavior of [...]

To fly from Costa Rica to Belize, we had two choices.  The first was an economy fare that entailed a 23 hour journey.  The second was executive class, which took 3 1/2 hours.  The price for first class was actually less than the economy, so it made the decision a no-brainer.  I booked all four [...]

Many, many years ago, I drove my husband (then boyfriend) out towards the farm fields in Illinois and surprised him with a gift of skydiving for his 29th birthday.  He freaked out.  He tried to back out of it saying he needed more time to get used to the idea.  I laughed.  He had about [...]