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Life's a Beach
Life's a Beach

Life's a Beach

—For everyday folks, vacations are relaxing escapes from life's mundane routines and treasured to the inevitable end. Some getaways, however, are so incredible that endings turn into life-changing beginnings. Travel Channel celebrates actual stories of people whose dreams of retreating permanently to their very own beach paradises turned into reality. Those profiled left their old lives behind to start anew in the Virgin Islands, Costa Rica, Panama, Fiji, and the Bahamas among other seaside destinations. "Life's a Beach" just might make you think twice about heading back home.
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Season 117 of 17 Episodes

  • Roots in paradise with a Bahamian bed and breakfast and a taco stand in Panama.

  • Opening Tahiti's first pottery studio and a pizzeria in Costa Rica.

  • Savvy travelers across the globe find a way to make a living in paradise with a full-time job.

  • Savvy travelers put down roots in paradise with a Costa Rican tree house and a surf hotel in Fiji.

  • Ex-pats enjoy life in paradise with a motor cross track in Nicaragua; island innovations in Fiji.

  • Putting down roots in paradise with a bar in Costa Rica and a recording studio in Nicaragua.

  • Settling in paradise with a scuba shop in Moorea and a surf and yoga school in Nicaragua.

  • After shipwrecking in the South Pacific, two lovebirds build their own private paradise; a cowgirl from Canada isn't horsing around when she builds a ranch in Nicaragua; further east, a salesman flies to St. Thomas.

  • Risk-takers book it to the beach to live their dream lifestyle in paradise.

  • A San Franciscan native skips town to Nicaragua to enjoy a personal motocross track in his backyard; an ocean away, a couple can see into yesterday in Fiji; a charter captain builds his own party vessel in the Virgin Islands.

  • Two families merge and move to the Bahamas for a chance at paradise; In St. John, the best pals bring beer to the beach with island flair; an architect builds a six-storey villa in the shape of a yacht in Costa Rica.

  • Friends uncover tropical islands to flip for profit in Panama; a struggling actor leaves LA to create romance in Fiji; a student starts anew in Costa Rica by finding love and opening a West Coast pizza joint.

  • A carpenter heads to Mexico to build an island from recycled bottles; two friends boast the best party in Nicaragua and an ocean-side recording studio; a Kansas native brings the Yellow Brick Road to Puerto Rico.

  • In Costa Rica, a contractor builds his dream home in the treetops; from business student to beach boss, a surfer coasts down to Nicaragua to open a surf school; an advertising executive discovers professional fulfillment in Moorea.

  • A New Jersey native builds his own submarine in Honduras; an artist opens Tahiti's first pottery studio; an Englishwoman starts a family on the pink sand beaches of Harbor Island.

  • Four travelers give up the mundane for their new lives in paradise.

  • Four travelers live it up in permanent paradise, beachside-style.
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For everyday folks, vacations are relaxing escapes from life's mundane routines and treasured to the inevitable end. Some getaways, however, are so incredible that endings turn into life-changing beginnings. Travel Channel celebrates actual stories of people whose dreams of retreating permanently to their very own beach paradises turned into reality. Those profiled left their old lives behind to start anew in the Virgin Islands, Costa Rica, Panama, Fiji, and the Bahamas among other seaside destinations. "Life's a Beach" just might make you think twice about heading back home.

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