What?: After spending most of my adult life in Southern California, I’m moving back to my native Venezuela. Specifically, here. I came to SoCal after being awarded an academic scholarship by the government of Venezuela. After finishing my BS-ICS at the University of California, Irvine, I went back to Venezuela to get employment in the field as agreed. Unable to find employment, I returned to SoCal where I had already fallen in love with beautiful Mik. We married and I worked for a couple of companies before founding Intra Automation Software & Systems Inc. providing hardware, software and programming services to interested parties in the business field. I was lucky to spend most of my adult life in a great marriage that produced two outstanding human beings: our children, Xavier and Sasha
When?: ASAP, most likely before the end of this month of July.
Why?: One of my favorite casual eateries is the Lost Pier Cafe at Aliso Beach. If you ever visited this beach, you probably remember that it was home to one of the most unusual and beautiful piers in SoCal (It was square and had to be torn down because of structural damages). What you probably don’t know, is that there is a trail that ends in Marina Hills in beautiful Laguna Niguel where I resided for several years with Mik and where our children grew up in a beautiful home I was able to afford; The truth is that everything in SoCal reminds me of what I have lost! I don’t want to become an old man ruminating of what I have LOST!
• Will I return to the US and SoCal? Most likely not, only in the event of a business obligation.
• Do I expect family and friends to visit me? Most resoundingly yes! Although Venezuela has been saddled with a brutal socialist dictatorship for the last 27 years, things are quickly changing and it can only be for the better. Margarita Island happens to be a regular stop for many Caribbean cruises and home to an international airport.
• I also want to provide as much love and affection to my mother while living together as long as she wants (and who I know reciprocates the sentiments, very much). Of course, I have several family and friends in Venezuela and a half-sister in Margarita Island that will help me with some the logistics of my move. My move wouldn’t be possible without the love, affection, emotional and financial support of my sister-cousin Anabella and my son Xavier.
It’s time to write not just the last chapter of my life but an all-together new book and I need a change of scenery to accomplish that.
𝑳𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒆𝒑𝒉𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒍; 𝑨𝒍𝒐𝒉𝒂!