(500) days of paradise Index
March 2026
Index
The Cast (paid subscribers please, contains personal content)
The Bucket List (paid subscribers please, contains personal content)
2020: A brief chronicle of a year from hell (paid subscribers please, contains personal content)
Buying Real Estate in Belize - getting to the title
The Very Ugly Side of Our Island Purchase (paid subscribers please, contains potentially defamatory content, and financial figures - update, temporarily unpublished at request of local authorities)
The Biggest Single Purchase - A Love Story
At This Moment (current state of the union)
This is a story of boy meets island
The boy, Blair Guilliom of Fort Wayne, Indiana
Grew up believing that he’d never truly be happy
Until the day he owned his own tropical island
This belief stemmed from early exposure to colorfully inaccurate timeshare flyers
And a total misreading of the 1982 movie, “Tempest”
The island, an acre of dead coral and mangrove swamp clinging vaguely to the Belize barrier reef,
Did not share this belief
Since the disintegration of the previous owner’s life and finances,
It’d only loved two things:
The first was the absolute quiet of solitude
The second was how easily it could crush others dreams
And feel nothing
Blair discovers the island on January eighth, 2022
He knows, almost immediately, this is the island he’s been searching for
This is a story of boy meets island
But you should know upfront...
This is not a love story.
