Adventurous by nature, my wife and I began pondering early retirement not long after our wedding. Although successful from a professional point of view, we always viewed our jobs as a registered nurse and a financial services administrator as a gateway towards something more rewarding than a good paycheck.  Raised in a generation devoid of …more

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The World’s Top Kayaking Locations   A man of wisdom delights in water. ~ Confucius The following are ten great kayaking locations: Abel Tasman National Park, New Zealand Abel Tasman National Park, located at the north end of the South Island, has more than 37,000 acres to explore by kayak in emerald-green waters. Sandy beaches …more

When we set off from Chicago to start on a Green Global Trek in Latin America, we fell in love with Granada, Nicaragua. We did not know how long we would be living in Granada, but we knew we wanted to anchor ourselves there, building a new chapter in our lives and traveling throughout the …more

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The World’s Top Beaches continued If there is a heaven for me, I’m sure it has a beach attached to it. ~ Jimmy Buffett Radha Nagar Beach, Havelock Island, IndiaRadha Nagar Beach on Havelock Island, part of the Andaman and Nicobar Archipelago, in the Bay of Bengal features fine white sand, turquoise blue waters and …more

The World’s Top Beaches If there is a heaven for me, I’m sure it has a beach attached to it. ~ Jimmy Buffett The following are ten great beaches: Pink Sands Beach, Harbour Island, Bahamas Pink Sands Beach, stretching three-mile and 100 feet wide in some spots, provides fine rosy colored sand and shallow calm …more

I am fast approaching retirement and spent a great deal of time thinking about it over the last few years. Am I really ready for a complete change of life? Am I ready financially? To retire or not to retire that is the question. This week I jotted down a list of my top reasons …more

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Since marrying my husband just shy of twenty-five years ago, we have lived: In Humboldt County, California where giant coastal redwoods march into the wild waves of the Pacific Northwest. On the side of Kilauea volcano on the big island of Hawaii where new land is created every day and the air fills with sulfur …more

I rarely trust statistics, and particularly those in articles in the press that begin with “According to the latest statistics…”. I know far too much about how ‘flexible’ statistics can be, and how they can be twisted and manipulated to match the political arguments and headline grabbing deceptions of the day. Recent headlines in the …more