Moving to Mexico and starting a B&B: One couple’s story [Video]

After years of travelling together, Brooke and Rick Gazer, both from Canada, were used to staying in interesting places.

And as they bedded down at a guesthouse in San Miguel, Mexico, owned by a couple from Nebraska, Brooke wondered what it would be like to move away and open up their own bed and breakfast.

“I was just observing (the owners) and thinking, ‘These people really have a wonderful life, so one day I’d like to do this,’” Brooke tells CNN Travel of that memorable stay in 1986.

Relocation dream

Over a decade later, they relocated to the North American country to do just that.

The couple, who’ve been married for 38 years, had both lived abroad previously, and enjoyed travelling together, “so it wasn’t a completely foreign idea to move out of the country.”

However, it wasn’t until Brooke lost her job as a pharmaceutical rep in 1996 that they made …