Manta Stories


Our Second Year

In December we celebrated the end of our second year in Manta Ecuador. We have learned so much about the people and the culture of Ecuador. We feel we couldn’t have picked a better place to retire. During the first two years we have purchased a home, obtained our Cedula (permanent residency visas), visited many places in Ecuador and also have visite...


Construction in Ecuador

We live in a gated community called Manta Beach. Manta Beach is a nice area to live in Manta if you wish to live in this type of community. We thought for our retirement we would be traveling, so a gated community with security would be where we wanted to live. The Manta Beach community is plotted for over six hundred homes with about one third of the ...


Our First Month

We have lived in our new home in Manta for a month now. We have been busy with purchasing furniture, installing drapes, changing over all of the accounts for the property into our name, visiting other Expats and getting to know our new city. We have also accomplished a good bit of work around the house. There were some changes Linda and I wanted to mak...


Holidays in Ecuador

Before we left Tennessee, we had combined Thanksgiving, Christmas and birthdays into a weekend in Knoxville. Ramie and the grandchildren came over to help us celebrate our holiday in Tennessee. So we were ready for a second celebration of the Holidays in our new home. We moved into the house on Christmas Eve, so we didn’t much to eat or to prepare any k...