Travel related: Canada, USA, , Mexico, Central / South America, Europe
○ Cruising, RV, Weekend
Notes about our 3 month stay in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico in Jan-April 2023. Now that we are officially retired, we will be staying for three months in an apartment which is just off 5th avenue known as the “main street” of tourist life in Playa. Playa is about an hour south of Cancun, so […]
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$100K invested in each category.
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The dinosaur extinction is widely attributed to a large asteroid from space, hitting the earth near Cancun, in the Yucatan peninsula / Gulf of Mexico. This 10 km diameter asteroid strike occurred 66 million years ago, with the center of the impact near the coastal town of Chicxulub which is about a 5 hour drive […]
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Another fun YES Couple, Beth and Geoff originally from Nova Scotia have been sharing their retirement journey with us after they purchased a large Class A motor coach RV, with a nice Jeep in tow (affectionately known as the Toad), and travelled around the USA in 2021 for a few months. They typically book their […]
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We did a basic 7 day test run of a longer road trip by taking a run trip through the mountains of Alberta last year, using the Canada Dream RV Truck rental. Its great to have a totally self contained vehicle that you can move at what ever pace that you want to. I liked […]
Continue ReadingWe feel fortunate to have travelled through a lot of our world, but there are ALWAYS other new places to explore. Initially our plans focused on places that might become our full time living place that is “outside of Canada”. Since Cathy has learned to speak Spanish quite well, those countries are also good picks […]
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We have really enjoyed the many years of content that Barry Kessler has in his weekly podcasts and associated website photos as shared at his Puerto Vallarta Travel Show site. The podcasts are great to listen to when driving on roadtrips. Very inspirational interviews with all types of people who live in the Puerto Vallarta […]
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UPDATE: 2024-12-16, Our next trip is to Spain and Turkey in 2025. Our personal journey to this blog stems from the blood sweat and tears that we have worked through starting when I was about 60 years old, trying to picture what retirement at age 65 would be like. Frankly I was very scared back […]
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AirBnB hosts can DOUBLE your price on a confirmed and pre-paid booking! We learned about this the hard way, and the best you can hope for is a full refund from AirBnB if you know how to “play the game”. The way it works is that the host will “REQUEST” that you accept a new […]
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Expat first time explorations of Torremolinos, in the sunny Costa del Sol – Andalusian costal region of Spain, shoulder season, spring 2022. See subsequent article for the following year Our love affair with Spain – yesRetired We are staying in a lovely beach front unit in Torremolinos, about 20 minutes from the Malaga airport, which […]
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