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The Illusion Newscast Roller Coaster – Controlling Your Mind And Your Emotions

It’s a staged illusion.  Have you ever wondered how much YOUR beliefs, emotions and actions are molded by the news reports you see with your own eyes on TV and online newscasts.  Take for example the horrible events in Orlando recently where 49 or 50 people were killed and a similar number sent to the […]

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Joys Of Expat Lifestyle In Cabrera Dominican Republic

Getting together with friends, both expats and locals alike, is one of the great joys of living offshore on a Caribbean island.  Of course we have enjoyed similar experiences with family and friends throughout the years in our home countries, but there is something especially rewarding when you are the guest in a foreign land. We find […]

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A Prime Example Of Using The Primary Weapon

One of my readers sent me a couple of recent posts by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts. Pasted directly from Dr. Roberts site provides a brief Bio along with his many accomplishments. “Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for […]

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Fear The Primary Weapon

It’s been said there are only two primary emotions love and fear and every other emotion we experience is just an offshoot of these two primary emotions. It’s also been said that whatever is love cannot be fear and the same holds true for the opposite. Keep this in mind when continuing further into this […]

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Expat Friends Party On The Beach Near Cabrera Dominican Republic

We joined our Canadian / European friends and other expats on the beach to bid a fond farewell to one of our European Expat families as they head out on another of life’s adventures to explore Spain. We will miss them, but we know they will be back several times a year for extended stays which […]

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Only A Fool Tries To Survive By Acting Like A Vegetable

“Only a fool tries to survive by acting like a vegetable – staying rooted in on place when the political and economic climate changes for the worse. When the going gets tough, the mentally tough go elsewhere, the way your forefathers once did…” Doug Casey, ‘Getting Out of Dodge’, ‘International Man’ While Doug Casey can […]

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4 Wheeling Wrapup – Through The Rivers We Go To Get To Cabrera

Let’s wrap up our Sunday afternoon 4 wheel adventure in the third and final video in our 3 part series.  On this leg of the trip we continue to explore a rarely used cutroad in the outback near the North Coast… just for the fun of it.  No such thing as bridges on  backroads like […]

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Let’s Go 4 Wheeling On The Backroads Of The DR

As you know from watching this blog for a while, we selected the North Coast of the Dominican Republic as our Plan B because it offered a number of advantages for us.  We appreciate a less meddling and intrusive government, lower real estate prices, almost negligible carrying costs, cheap but good healthcare options, year-round temperate […]

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Montaña y Mar Project Update – Oceanview Homesites In Cabrera Dominican Republic

Our Montaña y Mar Project is moving along well.  As you will notice in the video tour, we the crew has already started to widen the roads and start blacktopping them with asphalt.  They have graded the roads and are adding the drainage culverts and asphalt right now and we have just opened the Phase 3 portion […]

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Retire Overseas – 7 Reasons An American Should Consider An Offshore Retirement

Why in the world would any American choose to leave the relative comfort and prosperity of the United States to retire to what many would consider to be a third world country. I mean, after all, America is the land of the free… the hope for prosperity. Immigrants from across the globe have gone to […]

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