About The SPEND Channel

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Single Parent Empty Nester Digital Nomad

Mission: To help empty-nest single parents in the USA build a plan to relocate abroad for their first time.

Now that your kid(s) are grown-up and moved out of the house, you might be wondering, what’s next?

Maybe you’ve been thinking of leaving the United States, even just temporarily. But you’re spinning your wheels and not making any progress.

Does this sound familiar?

Moving abroad IS a big deal.
Don’t feel discouraged if you feel you need help with this.

This is my story:

I became a dad at age 27 in 2002. At that time, my only foreign travel experience was an overnight in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico on Cinco de Mayo in 1995 with some friends.

I didn’t come back to Mexico for 21 years.

In fact, I didn’t get my first passport until 2015 at age 40.

In September 2015, I spent 8 days solo in Belize (f/k/a British Honduras).

A March 2016 cruise ship excursion in Ensenada, Baja California got me hooked on our southern neighbor, and I’ve been visiting Mexico annually since then (except during the pandemic).

In 2022, when my son turned 20, I came up with the concept of SPEND, as that was who I was becoming.

I spent over 10 weeks in Mexico over the summer of 2024, with five of those as a TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) student in Guadalajara and the other five weeks on vacation, passing through Puerto Vallarta, Nayarit State, and Mazatlán, Sinaloa, before returning to Tucson, Arizona to live and work and prepare to go abroad again.

In May 2025, I left the U.S. and slow-traveled through Mexico (6 months), Belize (4 weeks), and I’m currently in Guatemala for the winter before returning to Arizona to visit family before going abroad again in 2026.

Now I want to help other similarly situated empty-nest single parents do the same — live abroad while being available to loved ones back home.

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