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Some reflections on our 1st year of retirement, which began on Jan 1, 2023: Although everything went pretty much as planned, the biggest surprise was the strange psychological feeling that it was too good to be true, and we might get caught – sort of like playing hooky from high school, and the principal would […]
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My DNA ancestry test revealed that many of the people who consider their ancestry to be in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and coastal Spain, actually originated from the Persian Plateau area of the Middle East, about 25,000 years ago! This northward migration happened as the Ice Age was receding and plants and animals were being […]
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One of our YES friends, Murray, decided to sign on to a classic “age of sail” tall ship for three months when he retired a few years ago. The “Picton Castle” is a square rigged Barque ship that provides appropriate training to able bodied people of any age that are looking for a truly unique […]
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A very popular white sandy beach in Nova Scotia is the Summerville Beach. It features very flat beach walking for many kilometers in an area of luxury resort accommodations. Even surfing and paddle boarding. Nearby there is a “free” world class fantasy world attraction in the woods behind the Crosby Greenhouse nursery in Liverpool. It […]
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Nice Instagram interview of our YES friends, Brian and Beth, who have been travelling the world for years using some surprising low cost lifestyles to help make senior life more affordable. They have lived in France, Portugal, Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico, Ecuador, and many more. They both enjoy hiking in the mountains, and seeing new […]
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We rented a fully equipped motorhome RV camper to drive for 5 days (2000 km / 1200 Miles) from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The medium sized “Class C” motorhome – sort of like the Winnebago of yesteryear, was a perfect fit for the two of us, and could actually accommodate extra people […]
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Five years before I retired, I was terrified of the idea, and planned to work at least until I was age 70. This was partly because of financial concerns, but also just the fact that I genuinely enjoyed my job for over 37 years at that stage. Now that we have retired, and spent the […]
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The Miraflores Locks Visitor Center was a great place to see how the world famous Panama Canal works. While visiting Panama during our winter snow bird escape we enjoyed visiting Panama City. The canal contributes to 40% of Panama’s GDP, and 6% of the worlds maritime commerce. The visitor center is one of the stops […]
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Our snowbird retirement journey has taken us to a beautiful Pacific coast beachfront condo in Nueva Gorgona, Panama, Central America. The Coronado area is well known by many expats from outside of Panama and is a little more than an hours drive from Panama City. Nueva Gorgona is a relative new comer to the development […]
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Our snowbird retirement has taken us to a beautiful expat friendly mountain valley town called Boquete in Panama. We really wanted to experience this part of Panama because of its “perfect” all year round high temperature of 26C (80F) that reminds me of a sunny day in spring or fall. It is cooler than the […]
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