I retired in 2021 after a lifetime of hard work. The Covid-19 Pandemic was beginning to wind down. The Doctor that I had worker for, for 28 years, passed away in 2020. The world was upsode down and backwards. The politics and the economy were getting ready to take a nosedive. I did an analysis, in September of 2021, of how we were doing financially and my projections didn't look good. I began to work on my plan. Almost immediately I ruled out retiring in America. Everything was too unstable and the recovery looked way too far in the future to live comfortably and maintain the lifestyle that we had become accustomed to. I looked over the other options and the most obvious choice was to sell everything nd moved to my wifes hometown, on the south coast of Peru. WE already had friends there and they don't hate Americans so that would work for me. I casually mentioned it one night while eating dinner and was met with a lukewarm reception. In a week, or so, I mentioned it again and pointed to all the negatives that we were facing if we stayed. We decided to call a Real Estate Broker and have our home appraised. We picked out a Broker and made an appointment. Caroline, our Broker, came over to the house and looked it over. She was interested in helping us to sell our home and agreed to have the house appraised. After the appraisal, we had another meeting and went over the numbers. Once we saw the numbers we decided to sell and head south. We put the house on the market and it sold in a week. Just like that, we were homeless and headed to Peru with 14 suitcases and a dog kennel for our dog, Aaron.
Most of our friends in the states thought we were crazy to make such a drastic move. When we got to Peru, most of our friends here thought we were crazy also. Moviving from a metropolis, with several million people, to a small, remote, town on the south coast of peru, was pure insanity. We watched , from Peru, as the economy took a dive and the Democrats opened the borders in an attempt to win a majority. They had already established a winning strategy of mail-in ballots, counted at the last minute, to win any election they set their sights on.