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Retire in Mexico – Mexico Adventures
with Joel and Sue (aka Dick and Jane), Part 1 

Retire to Mexico – Mexico Adventures
with Joel and Sue, Part 1

How a Vacation Turned Into Early Retirement in Mexico.

In life you never know what is coming up next, sometimes there disappointments and sometimes pleasant surprises.

For years, Joel and Sue (aka Dick and Jane), continually asked themselves while on vacation in various places in the U.S., “Could we live here?”

Little did they know that this line of questioning was a prelude to moving and retiring to Ajijic-Chapala, Mexico.

This is our story of how we found Lake Chapala and moved from Los Gatos, California to Ajijic, Mexico.

A Puerto Vallarta Yoga Beach Holiday Turns Into Ajijic Travel and More… Retirement
In January 2001, Joel and Sue were essentially burnt out of working long hours and long weeks in Their Silicon Valley consulting business and needed a break. By chance, they heard about a fabulous yoga retreat Puerto Vallarta, Mexico taught by one of their favorite yoga instructors, Thomas Michael Fortel.

When opportunity knocks sometimes you need to answer the door

This was after all initially a beach vacation in PV, Mexico to recharge our batteries and wound up as an adventure of a lifetime to living full time in Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico on the shores of Mexico’s largest lake, Lake Chapala. And as Americans retired in Mexico to boot!

Over the years, we had vacationed at Mexican beach resorts frequently.  But this January 2001 vacation was different, something very weird occurred during our beach vacation in Mexico.

We are outgoing and often met several new friends while on vacation and PV was no different. But this time we started meeting many people that were living a life that previously had only dreamed of, living a relaxed and comfortable life …. But in Mexico.

They were on vacation in Mexico just as we were, several lived in another part on Mexico and were just vacationing at the beach on the Pacific ocean. Home for them was somewhere in the interior of Mexico, the Colonial highlands.

Amazing, English speaking foreigners, mostly Americans and Canadians, retired and living in Mexico?

Joel became captivated, he need to find out about these early retirees. What was this Shangri-La in the heart of Colonial Mexico. Was it real or just a fantasy?

Click of the link to find out what happened to Joel and Sue (aka Dick and Jane). Did they really do it… retire in Mexico?

Find out the rest of the story at: http://www.casapreciosaajijic.com/Retire1.html

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Retired in Ajijic Mexico – Mexico Adventures
with Joel and Sue (aka Dick and Jane) , Part 1