I’m writing about the incredible Valentine’s Day we had this year, but honestly, you should not wait for a special occasion to do these fantastic activities.
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The first time our grandchildren came to visit (add link) was when Levi was only 6 months old now, at two, he is the perfect age to begin to enjoy paradise.
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This year has been a much more typical low season, or at least that is what we have been told. When we first moved full time to the Caribbean Coast of Mexico.
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Growing up in New York and later in Maine the change of seasons came four times a year. My favorite season has always been summer!
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At the end of October we celebrate our 3rd anniversary of moving to Puerto Aventuras. So it’s a good time to answer some of the questions we get about living fulltime in Mexico.
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It took more than two-and-a-half years to get them here - mostly because of COVID - but the first trip was completely worth it. They got the lay of our land, saw how we lived, met some of our new friends and we got to see and love them.
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We did two trips home to the States last year. It was the only travel we have done since Covid hit, right after we moved to Mexico. Both trips were to Mt Pleasant, SC and one included a stop off with friends in Miami.
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Ordinarily I would refrain from writing about this issue because it has been done to death (pun intended). But, there have been a few shootings in our part of Mexico recently…
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One of the things we most looked forward to when moving to the Caribbean Coast of Mexico was friends and family visiting. The entire time we lived in the Charleston area, we never tired of playing tourist.
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Three Kings Day, also known as the Epiphany, commemorates the day the 3 wise men, magi or 3 kings arrived to pay homage to the baby Jesus in Bethlehem. It happens January 6, 12 days after Christmas.
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There are so many articles I should be catching up on, but we keep getting asked about Health Care in Mexico, so I thought, since I have had quite a lot of experience lately, I would address that first.
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For our first trip post-COVID we decided to go back to Campeche city in the state of the same name. We had visited it briefly when we did our driving trip from Charleston, SC to the Riviera Maya back in 2019.
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When our friends, Claudia and Gil invited us to join them for a celebration, we jumped at the offer. We had no idea what to expect or where we were going.
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Recently, however, we have had two opportunities to visit Cozumel and thoroughly enjoyed both, and we see many more trips in our future.
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I decided to write about the wonderful experience of living and slowly being accepted in a culture that feels so different about their aging population – Mexico! The relationships we have formed in such a short time, and, may I add, during a global pandemic, have been truly special. I prefer to focus on the positive the world holds and the blessings, however small.
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I recently volunteered for a spay and neuter clinic in Chemuyil. It felt a little like going back in time because these clinics were on the big reasons I started frequenting the Riviera Maya.
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So, we either had to jump through the hoops to get a valid copy of our marriage license from California OR we could get married again in Mexico. Any excuse for a party!
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I remember when we first started exploring our options, I was searching everywhere for advice as to whether to choose Temporary or Permanent and how exactly to go about it.
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Kenny Chesney, in one of his songs, suggests “building a boat” as a means to a more balanced life. Building a boat is beyond my pay grade, but I do recommend buying one, if the circumstances permit and the situation allows.
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Seeing that we’re almost at our first anniversary of living in Puerto Aventuras, it might be useful for our readers to know a little about the weather we’ve experienced. Let me start by telling you what we knew before moving down here.
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