She Wrote An ‘Escape Plan’ to Quit Her Job and Move to an Island. Now She’s There Generating Nearly $300,000 A Year

In 2007, Marla Bainbridge Martinez went on a vacation that changed her life.

She visited Isla Mujeres, a five-mile-long Mexican island off the coast of Cancun, and fell in love with it. She returned for regular visits, meeting other Americans who had moved there, and started thinking: “They get to live there. Why not me?” The answer was work — she was a consultant at a technology firm, and couldn’t just quit and move to an island.

To make this big change in her life, she needed a plan. So she wrote one: She called it The Escape Plan — “my detailed, step-by-step plan on how I would quit my job

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