GirlPlusTwo

Most days we wake up sweaty with the sun, the humidity isn’tquite as striking as it used to be and it pleases me to realize we are growingaccustomed to the weather here.  I wakeup and put the kettle on for coffee, there is no creamer here but we do havefresh milk.  J is usually up and headedover to our land where he will spend the day planting trees or chopping downtall grass sometimes with a machete. Everyone here uses a machete and many have the scars to prove it, theycan be unwieldy little buggers and as such M and I keep far,  Read more >

A few days after my last post our lives turned upside down.  My partner suffered a terrible kidney stone attack and as a result needed to pursue medical care at the local hospital. We endured a rather terrifying ER (if you can call it an ER which in the middle of the night with no doctors on duty would be kind of a stretch) visit that finally resulted in us learning of a potential underlying medical problem.  Plainly stated, after 24 hours of waiting the MD there suggested he had cancer and said that if we had a way to get back to the States we'd be better served by the technology there.  Read more >

After more than four years of planning we are finally here. J came before us, driving from California and the length of Mexico, a trip that went without a hitch. M and I followed two weeks later, our flights uneventful but unnerving, we are leaving the country on a one way flight.  Read more >

It all started almost five years ago. Newly pregnant and stuck on a deserted island, not trapped but by choice, on a vacation of sorts. We made friends in candlelight, the electricity on the island shut down at dark and the only place to go was the common room of the guesthouse. They were there with a deck of cards and we had a flashlight and we played games late into the night.  Read more >