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Book cover. I Could Live Here by Ellen Barone. Cover Illustration. Colorfully painted townhouses.

I Could Live Here

A beautiful and moving travel memoir about life upended, new beginnings, and a redefined meaning of home.

Ellen Barone and her husband, Hank, are living a comfortable, creative life when they learn their rented house has sold. With no immediate solution, they hatch a plan to live in Mexico for the length of a visitor visa. They then move to Nicaragua. Then Ecuador …

What ensues over the next decade of long-stay travel, as they migrate from one continent to the next across the Americas and Europe, is an uncertain and fulfilling quest to discover their new home. Is it a long-term place they love, with the familiarity of accumulated belongings? Or is it being nomadic, future unknown but ever adapting and exploring?

I Could Live Here is an intrepid woman's open-hearted chronicle of change and adaptation—and the joys and discoveries—that come with seeking one's place in the world and what it means to be home.

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“I Could Live Here is an eloquent ode to the joys and challenges of long-stay travel and confirmation that home is, indeed, where the heart is.”

—Laura Bly, travel journalist

“I Could Live Here will make you rethink the way you travel and why you travel. It will give you the courage to face uncertainty and even embrace it.”

—Judith Fein, author of Life Is A Trip: The Transformative Magic of Travel

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