Preparing To Ride Off Into The Sunset

For the last 11 years, I’ve held a very clear dream. I desire more than anything to create an eco-chic boutique health and wellness hotel in a beautiful tropical foreign country. Ocean water crystal clear baby blues either right on the beach or an amazing view of it. Boutique, in my mind, means eight to twelve rentable accommodations. I will build my own personal home on the property of which I will live full time. There will be a very well-designed restaurant on-site offering healthy food and beverage, an Infiniti freshwater swimming pool overlooking the endless transparent ocean, and a well-designed yoga space. These are the nuts and bolts.

• my own personal home

• eight to twelve rentable accommodations

• healthy restaurant

• Infiniti freshwater swimming pool

• yoga space

This place lies somewhere in the Caribbean. I have never been to the Caribbean, which is why I am now going. The plan is to spend one month on any island I am considering as a possibility. One month is the minimum because I don’t feel one can know very much about a place after only a few days. I figure it’s a one to two-year travel to find the right location, the one where everything inside of me says, yes please, this, for as long as you can possibly exist here.

We are all different, and different things get different people fired up and create joy. For me, what I know to be the truest thing that I have ever imagined, is that if I found a way to live out my days in a scene straight from someone's desktop screensaver that appeared to be the most beautiful tropical island scene one has ever witnessed, that is the ultimate success in life.

I want to live close and connected to nature. I want to wear my bathing suit and flip-flops every day for the rest of my life. I want to drive a golf cart and be stunned daily by what my eyes witness. I want ultimate tranquility, peace, and simplicity to continuously nourish and soothe my spirit. I want to have a family. I want two cute puppers (dogs) running around and riding in the golf cart with me. I want to live healthy and clean, substance-free. I want to wake with the sunrise, do yoga, meditate, read, write, exercise, hammock nap, play ukulele, dine and connect with similar-minded spirits who appreciate the same things, walk the full moonlit beaches under the stars, and wake up the next sunrise to do it all over again, and again, and again. Yes please.