Remembering the "Tipping Point"

We meet and have met lots of people in the last seven months. People come and and people go and some have even left and returned since we met them. Everyone has their story about how they heard of Sayulita or why they came. Vacation, wedding, reunion, word of mouth, surfing, got lost, day trip from Vallarta, needed a change etc. I am always asked what was it that made you decide that it was time for picking up your family and life and move here. I had to go back a little ways in the blog archives to pull this one back out but it's the very first post of this blog written on January 16, 2010. The post briefly tells about the last straw, the kick in the ass, the change in perspective that started this "Adventure" for me.

The Tipping Point

It may not have started here, the desire to move to Sayulita, but I believe it was certainly the tipping point that made the decision a relatively easy one for me. The first 10 minutes of the animated movie "Up" tells of a couple who met as children, grew up, married and hoped to have a lifetime of adventures together. One thing or another got in the way and they never got around to it and in old age the wife falls ill, passes away leaving the husband alone. Before she does she encourages the husband to go and experience the adventures they never went on.

Before you know it, opportunities for "adventures" will be gone. A wake up call in an unlikely place or just in the right place with the right DVD? The kids, Alex and Trace, will adapt and Ash was relatively easy to convince since she can commute and alter her schedule with Delta Airlines. My construction job ends late summer/early fall and the timing of that makes fall 2010 the departure date for our family's first real "Adventure".


Ashley's reason will likely be a bit different so you might have to ask her yourself about why she wanted to go on this "Adventure". It's good for one to occasionally revisit, but not dwell on, the past so you can remember why we ended up on this path in the first place. It's been a good ride so far.

(The crazy and scary thing is that we have been told that a retelling of this "Tipping Point" story actually spurred others on to take "Adventures" as well)