Americans Love Costa Rica
Travel

Discover Why Americans Love Costa Rica

Check out our story about why Americans love Costa Rica so much. It was that day in Tortuguero, Costa Rica when, from our small flat-bottomed boat we saw spider and white-throated capuchin monkeys, three species of toucans, iridescent iguanas, walk-on-water Jesus Christ lizards, Day-Glo butterflies with wingspans wide as your head, several large caimans, frogs…

Retire in Costa Rica: Retirement in Costa Rica for Americans
Retirement

Retire in Costa Rica? (Yes, You Can Afford Retirement)

After a lifetime of hard work, harder winters – and possibly hard up for money – how about retiring in Costa Rica. It’s a relatively safe place where the temperature’s always in the 70s, complete healthcare costs less than $50 a month for the two of you, where a two-bed, two-bath house rents for about…

Heavy Groping Starlite Drive-in
Nostalgia Senior Stories

Heavy Groping at Starlite Drive-in

Here’s how I remember it… I’d drive to the back of the large field partially filled with scores of other cars. Stars blazed in the black sky overhead Finding just the right spot, well back from the refreshment stand, I’d swing my ’39 Studebaker up onto the mound, secure the speaker in the window, kick…

Cheap and Free Drugs
Health & Medical

Cheap and Free Drugs: Here’s Where to Get Them

Clip and save, folks. In a few short words, I hope to help you save hundreds, maybe thousands of dollars this year. Computerless? Your local library has one you can use. FREE DRUGS To appease critics of the hugely profitable pharmaceutical giants, most all drug companies have free “Patient Assistance Programs” for folks with income…

Florida Drivers
Senior Stories

Florida Drivers Drive Till They Drop

In Florida, geezers rule. If a politician wants to stop us from driving, we just shoot him. It’s the law. A few weeks back, a local 93-year-old driver struck a pedestrian, severing his leg, and killing him instantly. The driver never slowed. Three miles later he reached our Sunshine Skyway Bridge where a toll taker…

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