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Mission: Rescue Your Retirement: How Moving Abroad Saved Our Assets. Volume II Letting Go
Welcome back to our world and our story.
At the end of Volume I, "Leap of Faith"--an Amazon Best Seller that hit #1 in 6 different categories--we've left Las Vegas to begin our grand adventure in Cuenca, Ecuador.
"Letting Go," Volume II of Rescue Your Retirement, perfectly describes our unconventional and often hilarious introduction to living abroad. All hell breaks loose almost as soon as we get off the plane in Ecuador and continues unabated like a blazing wildfire for over two years!
Fasten your seat belt because you're about to experience a madcap roller-coaster ride as we stumble, bumble, and intensely party our way through the transition to expat life.
Eat, drink, and be merry with us because, yes, we are positively "Letting Go"!
At the end of Volume I, "Leap of Faith"--an Amazon Best Seller that hit #1 in 6 different categories--we've left Las Vegas to begin our grand adventure in Cuenca, Ecuador.
"Letting Go," Volume II of Rescue Your Retirement, perfectly describes our unconventional and often hilarious introduction to living abroad. All hell breaks loose almost as soon as we get off the plane in Ecuador and continues unabated like a blazing wildfire for over two years!
Fasten your seat belt because you're about to experience a madcap roller-coaster ride as we stumble, bumble, and intensely party our way through the transition to expat life.
Eat, drink, and be merry with us because, yes, we are positively "Letting Go"!
327 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 9, 2018
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About the author
Edd Staton
4 booksIt’s 1967. The first successful human heart transplant is performed. The Beatles release Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. And two teenagers living in Atlanta, Georgia, much more interested in music than medical marvels, fall in love.
While classmates talk about football games and sock hops, these kids dream of growing old together. After a 4-year courtship, graduation, and a simple wedding, the summer of 1971 marks the official beginning of their American Dream. They join the workforce, later bring two children into the world, start multiple businesses, and move ten times before unexpectedly finding themselves living in South America.
Their richly textured life together isn’t perfect. No life is. They survive the early death of parents and their own serious health challenges; experience disappointing failures; and endure financial ups and downs not for the faint of heart. But no matter the obstacles they never give up, steadfastly continuing to Imagine, Intend, and Create the life of their dreams.
We’re Edd and Cynthia Staton. Welcome to our world and our story.
Yes, we were indeed childhood sweethearts (in fact, Edd was literally “the boy next door”) who married quite young. We loved our years of active child-rearing, but when that came to an end we put a “for sale” sign in the front yard, sold our successful business, and moved on to new careers and empty nesting in Charleston, South Carolina.
After six happy years feathering that nest, an unanticipated opportunity to relocate to Las Vegas appeared. Without hesitation we accepted, and the “for sale” sign once again went up. We knew it was time to leave our comfortable life in the South and go west to explore more of the United States. “After all,” we said, “it’s a big country and a big world!”
Little did we know how prophetic those words would become. In 2008 the Economic Tsunami that devastated the nation mercilessly engulfed us. We were both “downsized” from our high-income careers, and our dream home lost two-thirds of its value almost overnight. As the months dragged on with no relief in sight, the life we had known was being hopelessly swept away.
This time, we decided with great hesitation our best option was to take our remaining assets, retire early, and move overseas to someplace with a lower cost of living. We settled on a city we didn’t know how to pronounce in a country we knew next to nothing about.
Cuenca, Ecuador.
How remarkable that against all odds, this catastrophic event that could have destroyed us instead opened the door to create a life beyond our wildest expectations .
Edd’s blog about our hilarious adventures in Ecuador has won numerous awards and been followed by readers in over thirty countries. (The trilogy of books we co-authored from these experiences are all Amazon #1 best sellers.) This goes in later.(reminder here)
Recognized as experts on expat living, we’ve appeared on national television, written hundreds of articles for magazines and online publications, and are featured speakers at large international conferences where we have shared our expertise on moving and retiring abroad with thousands of attendees.
We also make regular trips back to the States to visit our family which now includes four grandchildren, maintain a whirlwind social schedule, and travel throughout Ecuador and beyond. We’ve found ourselves soaring via zip line across an extremely wide and frighteningly deep river gorge; pedaling a sky bike a la E.T. above the canopy of a misty cloud forest; hanging out with blue-footed boobies and giant tortoises in the Galapagos Islands; and further shortening our bucket list with a dazzling helicopter excursion through the Grand Canyon.
What a blessing that we enjoy this exceptional life on a budget funded by our Social Security income. We triumphed over desperate circumstances by fearlessly embarking on an uncharted journey to rescue our retirement. And we’ve succeeded in designing a world
While classmates talk about football games and sock hops, these kids dream of growing old together. After a 4-year courtship, graduation, and a simple wedding, the summer of 1971 marks the official beginning of their American Dream. They join the workforce, later bring two children into the world, start multiple businesses, and move ten times before unexpectedly finding themselves living in South America.
Their richly textured life together isn’t perfect. No life is. They survive the early death of parents and their own serious health challenges; experience disappointing failures; and endure financial ups and downs not for the faint of heart. But no matter the obstacles they never give up, steadfastly continuing to Imagine, Intend, and Create the life of their dreams.
We’re Edd and Cynthia Staton. Welcome to our world and our story.
Yes, we were indeed childhood sweethearts (in fact, Edd was literally “the boy next door”) who married quite young. We loved our years of active child-rearing, but when that came to an end we put a “for sale” sign in the front yard, sold our successful business, and moved on to new careers and empty nesting in Charleston, South Carolina.
After six happy years feathering that nest, an unanticipated opportunity to relocate to Las Vegas appeared. Without hesitation we accepted, and the “for sale” sign once again went up. We knew it was time to leave our comfortable life in the South and go west to explore more of the United States. “After all,” we said, “it’s a big country and a big world!”
Little did we know how prophetic those words would become. In 2008 the Economic Tsunami that devastated the nation mercilessly engulfed us. We were both “downsized” from our high-income careers, and our dream home lost two-thirds of its value almost overnight. As the months dragged on with no relief in sight, the life we had known was being hopelessly swept away.
This time, we decided with great hesitation our best option was to take our remaining assets, retire early, and move overseas to someplace with a lower cost of living. We settled on a city we didn’t know how to pronounce in a country we knew next to nothing about.
Cuenca, Ecuador.
How remarkable that against all odds, this catastrophic event that could have destroyed us instead opened the door to create a life beyond our wildest expectations .
Edd’s blog about our hilarious adventures in Ecuador has won numerous awards and been followed by readers in over thirty countries. (The trilogy of books we co-authored from these experiences are all Amazon #1 best sellers.) This goes in later.(reminder here)
Recognized as experts on expat living, we’ve appeared on national television, written hundreds of articles for magazines and online publications, and are featured speakers at large international conferences where we have shared our expertise on moving and retiring abroad with thousands of attendees.
We also make regular trips back to the States to visit our family which now includes four grandchildren, maintain a whirlwind social schedule, and travel throughout Ecuador and beyond. We’ve found ourselves soaring via zip line across an extremely wide and frighteningly deep river gorge; pedaling a sky bike a la E.T. above the canopy of a misty cloud forest; hanging out with blue-footed boobies and giant tortoises in the Galapagos Islands; and further shortening our bucket list with a dazzling helicopter excursion through the Grand Canyon.
What a blessing that we enjoy this exceptional life on a budget funded by our Social Security income. We triumphed over desperate circumstances by fearlessly embarking on an uncharted journey to rescue our retirement. And we’ve succeeded in designing a world
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