we redesigned our lives

In 2025 we pressed the reset button. We sold our company, let go of everything we owned, and stepped into a completely different way of living.  

We’re Ian and Alain, a Canadian couple in our early sixties who decided retirement didn’t have to mean slowing down. Instead, we’re spending the next decade embracing a nomadic lifestyle as slow-travel nomads, settling into places like Southeast Asia, Mexico, and Europe for months at a time.  

Our goal isn’t to rush through destinations or collect passport stamps. It’s to live inside them — learning local rhythms, exploring cultures and languages, and discovering the everyday pleasures of food, neighborhood cafés, and markets.  

This lifestyle also allows us to stretch our Canadian retirement savings through geo-arbitrage, living well in places where the cost of living is lower, which makes it easier for us to enjoy budget travel experiences.  

This site follows our attempt to redesign life after sixty — sharing what it actually costs, what works, what doesn’t, and what we’re learning along the way.  

We’re documenting the experiment in real time, hoping it might inspire others to imagine their own version of a reset. And if our paths cross somewhere in the world, we’d love for you to connect.