Are you ready for “Season in the Florida Keys”? The peak season is January through March when all the Snowbirds and visitors swarm Coastal Highway. However, some repeat visitors arrive this month to escape the colder weather up north. Several Seasons Now that I live in the Florida Keys, I realize there are several seasons. […]
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Traveling from Bar Harbor to Portland was a relatively short drive. On our Airstream Adventures, we try to keep travel days to 8 hours or less, even though many RVers find that too much. Portland, Maine When I was a kid, we used to camp for two weeks every summer. Back then, in the Middle
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Internet connectivity was unfortunately terrible at every stop this summer, so I can only now post an update on the good, the bad, and the ugly of this Airstream Summer 2023 adventure. When summer gets too hot in Key Largo, we hitch our Airstream to the Suburban and head north. This year, we had a
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Retirement can be a lonely place. In 2022, we sold our business and retired to the Florida Keys. We had been snowbirds for several years, and before that, we visited Key West yearly for a few weeks, then a month. My husband’s dream had always been to retire to the Florida Keys, and here we
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We agree with Delray Beach, Pickleball is Life, and what fun we had playing in our first-ever tournament. As I posted last month in https://myretirementstories.com/practice-pickleball/, we did practice a lot beforehand. The tournament is now behind us, and I am happy to report that we did well. We had a wonderful weekend with our good
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In retirement, will it be golf or pickleball? Many retirees look forward to spending lots more time on the golf course, but pickleball is gaining steam these days. I took up golf in the mid to late 80s while in Tech Sales. It was a great way to network and entertain clients. More and more
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This was our first visit to Delaware since we sold our Active Adults Realty brokerage to Bill & Christine Davis. They have continued to build the business, adding more agents and a second location. We couldn’t be prouder about how they made Active Adults Realty their own. Now we’re visitors and the first people we
Aging and the Brain are topics popping up in my stream, whether on Facebook or in my Inbox. Are you finding the same thing? Whatever can help defend against memory loss is interesting to me, so I googled “painting and the brain” to see what the experts have said. It can help prevent mental decline
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Have you noticed how many retirees become artists? How many pick up a paintbrush? Or, perhaps they choose photography or another medium. Below the surface, I think we are all artists. As a REALTOR, when I worked primarily with recent retirees, I discovered how many of them were artists. Some had years of formal training.
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