We rented a car for a day trip drive to the “hotel zone” in Cancun and then took a side trip to a smaller more bohemian town called Puerto Morelos. These two places present the two very different ways people can enjoy the winter season in Mexico. The Cancun hotel zone reminds me a lot […]
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Since our snowbird retirement one month ago, our new alarm clock has become the early morning sounds of the jungle waking up as the sun erases the darkness of the night. Although we are actually staying in the bustling city of Playa del Carmen, Mexico there are an amazing number of delightful bird sounds. A […]
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Web site links to various resources I have stumbled across that were helpful for retirement and senior life. Seniors in Canada , Canadian Government site Seniors know a lot promotion, covering CPP, Old age security, Guaranteed Income Supplement, Care giving Benefits, Your Health, Safe at Home, Fraud Prevention, Services for Veterans, Managing your money. Also […]
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We enjoyed spending a day learning about the Mayan history and the current indigenous peoples perspectives, during our snowbird stay in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. The Tulum ruins tour is an amazing Mayan city ruins attraction, so we decided to build a day trip around that destination. It turned out that the best (and cheapest) […]
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As we settle into our snowbird lifestyle in Playa del Carmen, Mexico I have come to appreciate the amazing quality of some of the “street art” painted on random cement walls of buildings and infrastructure. The themes encompass the Mexican people, places and things including animals, birds and landscapes. Creative use of the cement balls […]
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These video clips show some of the diversity of free music and entertainment found on our stay in Playa del Carmen, 5th Avenue area. It makes wandering around 5th in the evening quite enjoyable. Lovely street dancing Mexican Hat dance, by a roving Mariachi band. This club has various cover bands, including Abba next month, […]
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UPDATE Ecuador: 2023-01-28 Hike to Yasanga Ridge, Vilcabamba, Ecuador – We look at this ridge each day from our dining room window, so of course we had to go. We enjoyed views of Vilcabamba to the north and views to the south and the Pan-American highway leading all the way to Peru. One of our […]
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Some of the drug pharmacies even have a doctor who can renew your prescriptions, and fill it. Isn’t that handy? An abundance of personal service laundry services, make laundry day easy. Just drop a bag of clothes off in the morning, priced by the pound, your laundry will be clean and folded nicely for a […]
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As we settle into our first days as “snow birds” in Playa del Carmen, Mexico we scoped out the local grocery supermarkets. Two of the bigger ones here are Chedraui and Soriana. The Chedraui is much fancier and tourist centric with slightly higher prices, but beautiful selection and presentation with lots of high priced liquor. […]
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After reading about a fellow yesRetired person online (the Or family), who mentioned their success using the “FIRE” (Financial Independence Retire Early) philosophy, I realized that we had sort of accidently applied some of the techniques without knowing about it! The essence of it is to take a high percentage of your high income earning […]
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