You don’t have to be a billionaire to live like one. In Montana, there are billionaires who own ranches that seem like they’re the size of Rhode Island, but they don’t have a monopoly on: camping, hiking, bike riding, kayaking, fishing or skiing. Nature can be enjoyed by one and all. As an aside, you […]
Southwest Flight 1380 Safety and Briefings
An important lesson for any traveler. Patrick McGroarty and Doug Cameron write in The Wall Street Journal: Some passengers aboard Southwest Flight 1380 didn’t place oxygen masks over both their mouth and nose after engine fragments broke a window on the plane at more than 30,000 feet on Tuesday, according to images from the flight and passengers […]
Key West Survivor: How to Flush With No Running Water
Originally posted September 12, 2017. Across Florida right now people are living the reality of no electricity, and no water. The Keys were hit particularly hard by Hurricane Irma, and now it looks like thousands who weathered Irma may be evacuated from the chain of islands. There’s no power, there’s not much water, and with […]
Island Creek Oyster Bar, Boston, MA
The next time you’re in Boston and craving oysters, go to the Island Creek Oyster Bar and ask for “the Peter’s. The Peter’s Points from Onset, MA have quite the cult following around here. We continue to receive calls asking “when are the Peter’s going to be back?” Well, folks, the water is starting to […]
Your Retirement Life: Cost of Living Higher in These States Part I
A recent study by the Jefferson City-based Missouri Economic Research and Information Center (MERIC) estimates the average annual cost of living in 2017 for all 50 states. The National Institute for Labor Relations Research used MERIC’s data to calculate the average annual cost of living in Right to Work States and forced-unionism states. As of […]
Your Retirement Life: Enjoy Monet like a Rockefeller
“In 1883, Monet and his family settled at Giverny, northwest of Paris. Three years later he acquired an adjacent piece of land and applied for permission to dig a pond, which he hoped would be a source of artistic inspiration,” writes Rebecca Wei, President of Christie’s Asia. “In his petition to the local authorities, Monet […]
Your Retirement: The Van Life
Is living in a van and travelling the country for you? For some baby boomers it’s the only way to travel. “‘The thing I like so much about van life is the simplicity,’ says 55-year-old John Kennedy, now on his first big road trip, to California, in his $75,000 revamped Ram ProMaster,” reports Anne Marie Chaker […]
O Canada: “Sports Bind Us Together in our Pain and Heartache”
In his wonderful tribute to the 16 members of Canada’s hockey community killed in a tragic bus crash—10 were players of the Humboldt Broncos heading to a playoff game in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League Playoffs—Aaron Gleason of The Federalist, writes “Canada is hockey and hockey is Canada.” Think of the Dallas Cowboys, Los Angeles […]
How Would You Evacuate? Could You?
Originally posted September 22, 2017. After the triple shot of devastation served up by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, it’s worth a few minutes of your time to reassess your level of preparedness. Even if you live far away from the Atlantic or Pacific, you’re not immune. There are natural disasters that can touch down […]
Blackout: The Lights are Out in Puerto Rico
Hurricane Maria’s devastation is still front and center in Puerto Rico where an island-wide blackout triggered a power line failure in the south yesterday, reports the WSJ. “It is the latest in a string of blackouts that have plagued Puerto Rico in the wake of last year’s hurricanes, which wiped out power to the entire […]
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