Utah to Costa Rica Road Trip

Today we spent the day simply relaxing. Greg did some trading and made some money, while the kids played in the "backyard" and then I took them to the hot tub and then the swimming pool.

When Greg was done "working", all the kids were sleeping except for Parker, so he and daddy and Kevin played in the pool while I worked on my tan.

While I was "working" on my tan, I listened to "How to Be a No Limit Person" by Wayne Dyer, an excellent seminar. He asks some interesting questions which I think depicts perfectly our motivation in taking this "crazy" step in our life. He says: "If you suddenly discovered that you had 6 months to live, how would you change your life? What would you do differently? Whatever it is that you would do differently, if you KNEW you only had six months to live, you would do it. My advice to you is take the risk, do it, TRY IT! If you are living out of a sense of obligation instead of choice, you are a slave.

Another question, where would you choose to live? If you look at that big globe, where would you like to be? And then ask, what is it that keeps me from being there? Why not choose where you want to be.

Last question, what would you do if there were no such thing as money? What would you be doing with your life on a daily basis? What would you do with your time? Because anything that you are interested in doing you can also earn a living at, ANYTHING at all. And if what you're doing you are doing because it is earning you a living, or you've got good benefits, or whatever it is, it's not bringing you true happiness. You can do anything, you can make a living at anything. Instead of doing things because you make money at them, you ought to be doing them because they bring you inner peace."

He also says "Progress is impossible if you always do things the way you have always done things."

After a few hours tanning and swimming, we decided to head into town to find a place to eat. After driving around much of Tucson and not finding any restaurants, we finally found a great Vietnamese and Chinese restaurant, (Nam Son on 430 N. Park Ave.) that looked like a total dive but had excellent service and food. We sat outside in the sun and enjoyed a great meal.

We then went to a local park to play. Kyah was amazed at the people who had no home, no car, and slept at the park. It helped her to get over being so upset about wanting dress up clothes though.

The rest of the evening we spent driving around Tucson trying to find a Walmart, then came back to the hotel and watched Discovery Channel's Man vs. Wild.

Livin' the Dream, Baby!

During our drive time we love to listen to "Input" as we call it- books on CD (or MP3 in our case). This time we were listening to Napoleon Hill's "The Science of Personal Achievement", a fantastic talk by Napolean Hill himself. I highly recommend it. Our philosophy is "Input determines Output," meaning that whatever you put into your mind, and/or body, determines what you get out, of yourself, out of life, etc. The more positive you put in, the more positive you get out. It is the key to success in life.

We ate lunch in Phoenix at Bajio and Keva Juice (they make GREAT smoothies) located at 2501 Happy Valley Rd. We had a nice little picnic on the rocks.

We arrived in Tucson late afternoon, a little flustered because everyone was ready to get out of car. We picked the La Quinta Inn to stay in on Starr Pass Rd. because it had a pool AND hot tub, laundry services and high-speed wireless internet (Motel 6 and Howard Johnson only had dial-up- who only has dial-up still???). La Quinta is great- we have a fenced in "backyard" where the kids can play that is connected right to the pool.

We spent the evening swimming, then headed across the street to The Waffle House, a little dive that reminded me of something from a Rocky movie, but had great food.

Livin' the Dream, Baby!