Current Rock of Residence:
Mahe, Seychelles
Island Girl Since:
2016
Originally Hails From:
Cologne, Minnesota, USA
This small town Minnesota girl was deemed crazy by friends and family when she left a great career, sold her home, and moved with no plan to San Diego, California. Five years later she repeated the adventure, only this time she traveled halfway around the world to a place she had never been with only three suitcases of belongings to her name.
Sometimes things just feel right and she knew this journey was meant for her. Within two months, she had met the love of her life at age 43 in a country of only 90,000 people! A few months later, she was signed on to film House Hunters International. Now, two years later, she is a blissful newlywed living the no frills island life and loving it. Sometimes she feels like she is being punked, as her worlds could not be more opposite, however she enjoys learning from a new perspective. A great sense of humor and adventure keep her laughing and wanting more!
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This week we started our WWLOR Book Circle with a group of women from all over the world. Our first meeting was full of lively discussion. We all agreed that reading is like travel for the soul so I thought I would just refresh your memory with some great island reads...
Calling All Spring Breakers!
I know many of you are planning your Spring Break trips to the islands. Lucky you - the islands have missed you all!! It's always so fun getting ready for a beach vacation. We have some great products that have been rock tested listed on the website but I thought I...
Post Vacation Blues
So you've just returned to your island after a busy, bustling, beautiful vacation abroad. As you unpack your 500 suitcases of goodies (and your 8 weeks' worth of dirty laundry even though you were only away for 10 days ) you reminisce over the good times that were had...
If Once You Have Slept on An Island
A hundred year old poem that has stood the test of time... If once you have slept on an island You'll never be quite the same: You may look as you looked the day before And go by the same old name, You may bustle about in street and shop You may sit at home and sew,...
There’s a Rat in Mi Kitchen, what am I gonna do?
RATS… I think every rock has ‘em and if you don’t count yourself lucky!! I can’t stand them - from their beady little eyes to their gelatinous tail - yuck!! On my rock, you see them wandering around from time to time but as my husband would say in his English accent...
Link Up Local
Either you are into searching, scouting and finding out new, (yeah, new what??), new everything or you are not. I belong to the first category. For me part of living on a Rock is embracing the style/ways and quirkiness of that Rock. Having moved to a new Rock a year...
