Rob and Marvy’s Blog

• Changes
  Embrace change:The reason human beings exist is because of their ability to evolve and adapt to change. Change is not comfortable. Change is not convenient. Change is not always affordable, nor is it always in our best interest. It is just what it is…inevitable. Embrace change. Change: the act or instance of making or becoming […]
• Happy New Year!
  New Year’s Day 2019 Today is a pretty uneventful day.   We stayed home last night and listened to the celebratory craziness of our Mexican community. Fireworks, dancing, loud music, and Mexican karaoke until 5am.  I really do love to see so many people having so much fun! But alas, as it rolled into the mid-morning […]
• Low Hanging Fruit
  Marvy is laying in the hammock on our back porch while I sit in the shade and look out at the jungle-like foliage which surrounds the back our house; a banana tree at the bottom of our hill, a mango tree next door and star fruit trees dotting the hillside. Extending over and into our […]
• Life in Paradise.
  I believe it was in December 2012 that the idea of selling most everything we had and move to Mexico first came to us. Even though I had been good enough at corporate sales to earn six-figure income, buy two new homes, new cars, and take those family vacations, I had never seemed very happy […]
• Adventurers 2
  This is my second post about adventurers. As I prepare to walk across the United States, I have read most of the current books by people who have traversed the US for one reason or another. Some had support vehicles, some relied on friends and other people to put them up in their homes, while […]
• Adventurers 1
  I am temporarily side-lined for a while with an inflamed tendon in my leg. The good thing is that it happened during the heat of the summer when I had not planned on very many long hiking trips. So, I will have plenty of time to recuperate and work on other things for my walk […]
• Ducks in a Row
  I just moved the needle from a 60% possibility to a 95% probability of starting my trip as planned! I had a few major concerns over my Social Security benefits starting next year. However, after several phone calls, including one with the American Embassy’s Social Security division in Guadalajara (I live in Mexico,) everything should […]
• 40 Years Ago
  I was living in Denver, Colorado in 1979 with my friend Scott.  I had just finished working at a summer camp for teens in the Rockies. (You know, the kind of “adventure” camp where you can spend $3,000 to get rid of your kid for the summer.) It was a horseback camp where, for 30 […]
• Where it all began
  About a year ago I made a decision to go on an adventure. My entire early life had been a series of one adventure after another. Somewhere along the way I stopped. I got into a day job, got married, and raised a family. As life changed, my wife and I decided to move to […]