december 18, 2007e

We are in Mexico, living in a lovely apartment overlooking the Pacific Ocean.  We are living on the seventh floor so our view of the palm trees and the ocean beyond are just spectacular.  The question  to as is how we come to reside by the  Pacific .  The answer is long and convoluted but bear with me.

In our late 50's, while sitting by the Atlantic Ocean in the Canary Islands, we decided to own a home by water.  We did not care by a river, or a lake or the ocean.  But we decided to own a home by water.  So one part of the answer has to do that we began with the end in sight,and paid no attention to the how and when.

The next part of the answer has to do with our involvement with timeshares.  In 1982 we bought our first time share.  Our friends and acquaintances all told us we were wasting our money and that they were bad investments.  On the other hand we saw them as a way to fix our  vacation expenses.  The only additional expenses would be the transportation,  And we could control our expenses.  So we stayed in that timeshare once with the boys.  The next year we traded into a ski resort at Vail.  Then we said to ourselves,"lets buy more time shares". And we did.  We have traveled all over the world by trading off our timeshares.  It has been a huge bonanza for our family.

Up until the last two years, we never spoke about the timeshares to anyone, because we got so much grief and grumbling about out stupidity.  But recently even those folks adamently opposed are asking us questions about how they work.  So now they have become trendy t last.

This brings us to the last step of the first question.  This is a new type of ownership.  You can  purchase 5 weeks or more, in fee simple of a  apartment by tbe Pacific Ocean.  We did not want a house we  fully own and that we are responsible for, but we own 10 weeks in the same apartment by the sea.  We think that in our 80's this should serve us very well.

So the path to our home by the ocean has not been straight, but it all started  on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean, in the Canary Islands.  Always begin

at the ending.