"Freeways to Flip-Flops" author Sonia Marsh, meet and greet

What do you do when life in sunny Southern California starts to seem plastic, materialistic and just plain hellish?

For Sonia and Duke Marsh, the answer was to sell their worldly goods and move to the Central American island of Belize, a third-world country without all the comforts -- or distractions -- of life in the developed world.

Sonia hopes the move will bring her shattered family back together. Instead, things begin to go wrong immediately. As the days turn into months, Sonia finds herself questioning the family’s decision to move on a nearly daily basis. 

Today, back in the United States after her family’s adventure in Belize, Sonia has chronicled her story in Freeways to Flip-Flops: A Family’s Year of Gutsy Living on a Tropical Island. Sonia Marsh will be available for conversation or to sign her book.  Tom Blake, author of Finding Lover after 50: How to begin. Where to Go. What to do., will also be joining Sonia.  For more information, www.soniamarsh.com