Built from a friendship. Grown
into a garden tended with love.

It started with a walk. Two women who had been friends since childhood  walking on their California beach, sharing their identical dreams  of spending their best last years in a small Mexican town. Not a tourist town. A place with a genuine pueblo heart, where life moves at its own unhurried pace and the ocean is close enough to hear.​

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The following week, the two flew down with their husbands to see a run-down hotel they had seen online. It was worse than they expected, but it had potential and was in the most charming little fishing pueblo on the Nayarit coast.

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As they stood in the neglected building, Kathryn and Thora imagined their dreams realized.  They bought Hotel Julia! Suddenly, the two couples were owners of an unpainted, dark and termite-ridden hotel in Lo De Marcos.