"I have neither but would love both."
Me too Macy! I keep waiting for my "real" parents to roll up in the limousine, lol!

But we make it work, don't we?

"i hear it all the time, must be nice to stay so long....must be nice to take work off for that long....etc. "

Yup - me too...and my response is always to smile and say, yes. It is nice.

But as far as taking off work for three months - that's not me. I do a little work every day I'm there, I have to. I own my business and the buck stops with me whether I'm in the states or in Jamaica. There are actually days when I'm behind the computer the whole day - the business doesn't stop nor do I want it to. I'm blessed to have an amazing assistant holding down the fort but I still need to keep my eyes on things, pay bills, etc. Going when I go and staying as long as I stay is not random - I go when things are slow in my business and I stay as long as I possibly can before things start to get busy again....the last month I'm there is when I'm usually doing the most work there. As mentioned, this winter I wasn't home more than five days when I had to travel again for work. Last year I "commuted" from Jamaica to New York for that same gig.

As far as the trust fund folks and the alimony folks and the drug dealers - I've been thinking about this and have come to realize that the folks I know that do what I do (staying more than say 2-6 months), none of them are any of these. None...most are retired with pension and money in the bank, others are like me with their own businesses or a very flexible work situation. I've only heard about one trust fund situation from many years back - and I've known of a drug dealer or two who have done this type of stay as well - and didn't know either personally.