So I finally purchased the tickets, so we must really be going!! Where, you ask? To Playa Del Carmen, a beautiful beach town in the Mayan Riviera in the Yukatan. Jason, Zane and I will spend the next 9 months there. Zane will attend a private Waldorf bilingual school, which I think is pretty cool. Jason and I should be able to continue work as usual. Seems like paradise with one exception…no rock climbing. We have had many friends and family members question our decision to move to a place with out climbing. Actually it concerns us as well. Our hope is to check out the climbing areas in Mexico and possibly Cuba as well as making trips back to the US. What kind of shallow narrow minded people would we be if we put those kinds of limits on our life? It’s time for us to expand our horizons and possibly purchase a drill! There will be many new things to check out in Playa, like kite surfing, scuba diving and snorkeling, exploring the jungle and Cenotes and just exploring the new world around us. I feel I need to explain our decision to move there, especially after we had initially talked about several other places, such as South America and Zion. To make this work we need several things to happen…we need a great school for Zane that’s within our budget, we need to be able to work and stay in communication with clients, we need to be able to afford to live, we need to be able to return to the US easily and we to be able to get around. Also, one of our long time goals has been to learn Spanish. Playa seems to meet all these needs, when the other places we were looking at did not. Yes, it’a bit of a leap of faith to move to a place that you have never even visited, but we wanted to shake things up a bit. Living on the ocean has always been a dream of mine, and Zane loves the ocean. This will, indeed, be and adventure…and we are ready!!
So, while I in no way claim to be a writer, I thought it would be interesting to share our experiences here with folks back home. So please try and overlook my gross grammatical errors and poor writing skills.
-Lisa Nelson
