Chapter 9EcuadorSomething for Everyone
IN 2001, OUR HOME-BASED MARKETING BUSINESS in Omaha was doing great. But us . . . not so much. We were burned out. And each autumn, with the looming promise of another gray, bone-chilling Nebraska winter ahead, we dreamed about living in a place where we’d never again have to shovel snow or listen to the furnace burn money 24 hours a day to keep us from freezing to death.
Ecuador, however, wasn’t part of those dreams. It was not on our list of possible places to retire.
Sure, we’d been reading about Ecuador in the International Living magazine we’d subscribed to, but we’d not considered living there. We were leaning toward Mexico or Belize, or maybe elsewhere in the Caribbean, and we had pestered the publisher of International Living to hire us to provide editorial coverage from one of these places.
Still, when we got a call asking if we wanted to change our lives completely, close up our current business, leave the States and all our family and friends, and move to Quito, Ecuador, to work for International Living, we said “yes.” And then we attempted to learn all we could—as quickly as we could—about this fascinating and diverse little South American ...
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