Our House

Two wonderful changes came to our lives in 1976.

After living in rental houses for over 20 years, we were home owners. Bucher had a chance to buy a charming old Colonial house on Marine Parade, facing the sea, with a separate apartment on the ground floor and a large yard for our dogs.

Later that year, Alex announcing that he wanted to return to Belize. He had graduated from Georgia Tech in 1970 and then finished a six-month training course in offshore oil drilling when he was drafted. To our enormous relief, he was not sent to Vietnam. After his service, he returned to the marine end of offshore oil. He spent six years as the equivalent of First Mate, then Captain, of offshore rigs in Louisiana, the North Sea, Portugal, Nigeria, Norway, and Scotland.

Alex moved back to Belize in October of 1976 and settled into the downstairs apartment of our house.