Desperate to escape a soul-draining suburban lifestyle, Canadian writer and author Anne Beaudoin dared to chase a dream. Settling in the remote mountains of Costa Rica, Anne immersed herself as an expat where she wrote and maintained a five-year blog and shared her adventures of becoming a trout farmer and bed-and-breakfast host with armchair seekers and fellow travellers alike. Anne is a graduate of the Sheridan College Creative Writing Program and a co-songwriter of "Great Blue" on Alise Marlane's Stillness Hold On album. Between life's many adventures, she has worked mainly in the graphic design field. When she is not writing, Anne loves family game nights, hiking, and transforming a vintage 1984 Dodge Ram Roadtrek II - affectionately called Stan - into an awesome road-tripping van.