Giordana learned to cook at her mother knee in the north of Italy. In 1996  she bought a round trip plane ticket to Mexico, planning to spend a pleasant few weeks’ vacation.  But once she saw a small slice of Mexico, she wanted to see more.    Giordana tore up her retu...

As a golf course superintendent in Wyoming, Dan had a lot of downtime in the winter, so he and his wife were able to travel extensively. In 2011, they spent a month in Huatulco and liked it so much that they returned for a longer period each year, until 2014. That’s wh...

Shirley had been to Puerto Vallarta a few times on Vacation, but said she felt so much more at home in Huatulco. “Every time I came, I stood at the lookout at la Bocana and thought to myself - I don’t want to leave.”

After her son married a local girl and decided to liv...

Erich has always been a nomad. Born and educated in Germany, work took him to Chile, the Ivory Coast and Brazil. Eight months of backpacking in South America were followed by 15 years in South Africa. In 1985 Erich grew restless with the political situation and...

In 2010, Vivien, and her husband Joel, sailed away from San Francisco. They were taking their time, stopping in several ports in Mexico, and venturing off to inland destinations. In the spring of 2012 they dropped anchor in the bay of Santa Cruz where they spent three...

Kino grew up in Texas but spent most of his adult life south of the Border. “I’ve been all over Latin America and I’ve worked in many places, but I never considered living in Mexico.” He says that he lived very well in the Caribbean but not as well in various parts of...

Kimberley and her husband moved to Huatulco from Edmonton, Alberta in 2010.  “When he retired, Randy decided it would be cheaper to live in Mexico than in Canada.” The three things that made them choose Huatulco were, the climate, the cleanliness, and the safety. She l...

Before moving to Mexico, Maggie lived in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, where she worked in Banking.  She and her husband immigrated from Great Britain thirty years prior, but their dream was to retire someplace warm. They vacationed in Puerto Vallarta five times before the...

Before moving to Mexico, Larry was an assistant wine maker in Sonoma County, Russian River appellation. Many of the people he worked with were Hispanic as were, over half his wife’s students. “Doreen and I got to know a lot of them and enjoyed their culture. After seve...

At fifty-nine, Kris fulfilled her lifelong ambition of attaining an Art History degree. She subsequently worked in museums and later she opened a gallery and framing shop of her own. Kris had been planning a trip to Europe where she could drink in the works of the old...