Kevin Donegan grew up in rural Montana and after finishing graduate school in 1987, entered the Peace Corps where he caught the "travel bug."   Kevin served in Belize from 1987 to 1989 and then returned to the US and relocated to Portland, Oregon.   He initially worked as a family counselor for a non-profit with runaway and homeless adolescents for a little over a year.   In 1990, he took a position at Reed College where he started as the assistant director of residence life, and moved up to the position of director of residence life. Then his last two years at Reed were spent as the director of community safety.   Kevin left Reed College in 2000 and returned to the non-profit he worked at right after leaving the Peace Corps to take over as the director of runaway and homeless youth programs where he oversaw homeless shelters, transitional living, and street outreach programs, a program for sex-trafficked girls along with a wide array of other social service programs for adolescents at-risk.  Kevin served on multiple national advisory boards for the federal government specific to services for homeless adolescents.    In 2015, Kevin retired at 55 and started splitting his time between his homes in Portland, Oregon, and Merida, Mexico.  Mérida, the vibrant capital of the Mexican state of Yucatán, has a rich Mayan and colonial heritage. The city’s focal point is Plaza de la Independencia, bordered by the fortresslike Mérida Cathedral and white limestone Iglesia de la Tercera Orden, both colonial-era churches built using relics from ancient Mayan temples. The Casa de Montejo, a 16th-century mansion, is a landmark of colonial plateresque architecture. Elevation: 33′Population: 1,201,000 (2022)Support the showIf you enjoy these podcasts, please make a donation by clicking the coffee cup on any page of our website www.wheredogaysretire.com. Each cup of coffee costs $5 and goes towards bringing you these podcasts in the future.