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10 Best Countries For Long Term Stays or Slow Travel

Saturday Snap – End of Season Camping Party

Years ago, the people camping in our bay at Nickle Lake would always have a year end pot luck and party.  It hasn’t happened since we moved into the park but this year, a couple across from us made it happen. Great fun!

Wisdom Wednesday – I Don’t Want To Retire, I Just Want My Time Back

@simple_online_system I’m starting to realise I don’t necessarily want to retire. I still want to earn. I still want to be useful. I still want something to get up for. I just don’t want WORK deciding how I spend five days out of every seven. Maybe what I really want is control of my time. […]

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Filleting Family (July 2014)

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Home Again (June 2010)

Friday Fun Link – Stay in an AirBnB, Run a Bookstore!

The “Open Book” is a combination AirB&B and bookstore in Scotland where guests can spend their visit running the bookstore below the apartment! @chrislawlor The Open Book in Scotland ? Library Poets – Lysander  

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Should I Tip In USD or Local Currency While In Mexico?

I’ve never done this before but my original post from March 2019 is displaying weirdly and I’m too lazy to dig into my blog’s plug-ins and undercarriage to fix it right now. So I’m just going to re-post the entire thing (with the slightly changed title that this really applies for tourists in Mexico in […]

Saturday Snap – Meeting of the Minds?

Had a really nice visit with my mom before Shea and I leave for Mexico (twice in one winter?!?  What???) tomorrow.  Off to Puerto Vallarta for a week and it’s a long story but we got a good deal and have been thinking a lot about how all four of our parents quit traveling earlier […]

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Cuba Cuties (March 2011, Jan 2016)

So fortunate to have had multiple trips with both sets of grandparents – our wedding in Mexico and Dominican Republic with all four of them, Cuba separately with each of them different years and various other locations as well – Mexico, Hawaii, etc. Hard to believe this was 10 years ago… And this was 15 […]

St. Patrick’s Day Humour