The dream come true: Pen-y-bryn
“Dear Sarah
It has been just about a year since we met, briefly, last summer. I wanted to let you know of the big change I’m about to undergo, and thank you for your role in convincing me to pursue it.
A lot has happened since then, and the bottom line is that my partner and I have decided to give up on Beijing and the appeal of a steady income, and instead are buying a five-star inn and restaurant in New Zealand that has just hit all the right buttons with us in every possible way.
We leave Beijing on Aug 1 and have been walking on air in the 7 days since the word of our visas’ issuance came through from New Zealand. The place we’re buying is called Pen-y-bryn, and is located in Oamaru on the South Island. Here’s its website: www.penybryn.co.nz
I figured that life is too short to keep doing something that I don’t enjoy in the hope of one day being able to do what I do enjoy, and have decided that I’d rather enjoy what time I have here on earth rather than just keep accumulating money that does no one all that much good.
I think that I shall really enjoy my time in New Zealand, and hope to make it home for the rest of my days.”
Listen to James and me talk more about his dream, how he made it happen and how you can bring your own dreams to fruition too.
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[...] A few weeks ago, when the purchase of our lodge was approved, I wrote to Sarah to let her know that we had made the plunge. Before long I heard back from her with a request to do an interview with me to put on her blog. It turns out that she had returned to her native England and was helping people to make major life changes and she was taping interviews with some folks who had done it. So I did an interview and you can listen to it if you want to (I have no desire to do so myself). Here it is: http://www.cowsfrommywindow.com/blog/doing-it-now/. [...]