One day my husband and I decided to sell everything, give up our jobs, and move to a tropical island. It was 2020 and we were stuck at home in Richmond, Virginia during the covid quaranteen. There was little to do besides contemplate life choices a realize how unpredictable and fragile life is. At that time I was in a very stressful job working as a special education teacher with autistic students. An overbearing boss and my need for perfection set me on a path to working and obsessing about work every second of the day. I was also enrolled in college at the same time earning my certification. I was in a constant state of high stress and exhaustion. And then the world stopped. My Husband also had a highly stressful job and was hoping to retire early. So when we were watching the TV show House Hunters International and saw Roatan, a place we had visited on our 10th wedding anniversary, it was easy to say: "why not us?" So from that moment we researched, we visited, we planned and we made it here.