The Edelsbacher Family in the USA

What made us move

I am Guenther Edelsbacher, married to Elke and 2 kids, Kimmy & Nina-Vienna.
We were the typical Austrian tourists - 3 weeks winter vacation in Florida.
On one of our trips, daughter Kimmy was already around, we discovered the Headquarter of The Montessori Foundation in Sarasota Florida.
Elke wanted to give Kimmy the opportunity to learn English at their model school, so we decided that they would stay and I would travel between our Ad Agency in Austria and Florida.
Well, it didn't take long and I was done traveling. I landed some nice clients in the States and filed for an L1 Visa. We opened an other advertising agency in Sarasota and set the goal to stay for a year or two. Only ten years later we reset this goal and kept it open for further review:)
In the meantime Nina was born in the USA since we missed the medical time frame to make a secure flight back home to Austria. As Nina is the only real American in our family we gave her some Austrian roots, we middle named her Vienna. We all have have green cards by now (everybody but Nina) and visit Austria once in a while, mostly during the long, hot summer months.
We enjoy our adventure but we are sure it was not our last one. There is so much to see and we are not even done seeing great places in the USA:)
I always remember a quote by Mark Twain: Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines.
Guenther Edelsbacher