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Tips and Observations About Driving Through Baja California, and the Release of Your “Inner Mexican”

Four way stop in MexicoDriving…
in …
Mexico.
 
These three words are enough to strike fear into any news watching / Internet reading American. We are led to believe that we would either be kidnapped or just plain murdered within minutes of crossing the border. Even Mexicans who lived in the US advised us against driving in Mexico.
 
So, in order to add some firsthand experiences into the mix, and at the risk of contradicting...

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How Not Doing Chores Living Abroad Added 36 Additional Years of Free Time to Our Lives

36 years graphic – Best Places In The World To Retire – International LivingWriter's forward: Why people in places such as Mexico, Panama, Belize and Nicaragua are willing to work for expats for less than if they were located in the US or Canada is the subject of another article.  Suffice it to say that those of us fortunate enough to be from Western industrialized nations have hit the “Where You’re From Jackpot” through no particular virtue of our own.  We were just lucky to be born in the US, Canada, etc., and to be able to use US or...

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Anne of the Wild and Sea

Not many little girls who love animals grow up to be animal trainers in films, but as Jet Metier found out about Anne Gordon de Barrigón, that was one of her earlier steps to do what she really wanted to do: swim with dolphins and whales as a way of life.  And along the way she married a man from a native Panamanian tribe and opened a B & B on Contadora Island that offers studies for those interested in spiritually connecting with dolphins and whales.

This interview...

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