Tropical Daydreams

Life in Búzios

31 October 2011

Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh, My!

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On my very first night in our new house in Búzios I walked around and around opening and closing doors like a kid with a new toy. Coming fro...
27 October 2011

If the Shoe Fits . . .

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My entire current shoe wardrobe I've undergone a complete wardrobe overhaul since moving to Brazil, and no item of my apparel has cha...
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24 October 2011

Pan American Games 2011

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Ballpark franks  I remember passing many a childhood summer watching baseball with my father. Just the thought of Yankee Stadium still co...
20 October 2011

Language Learning Late in Life

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Mon père returns to his Paris birthplace I began to be interested in France when I found out that my father had been born in Paris. I was...
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17 October 2011

Aging in Brazil

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I buy my first senior ticket! I was a whippersnapper when I moved to Brazil, a mere 51 years old. I’m now 60. In a normal world, 60 is n...
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13 October 2011

Specialty Foods and Products

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Me and my shadow at the Casa Pedro, in the SAARA in Rio                                    I used to know where to go for anything in Ne...
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09 October 2011

An Expat in Brazil

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Right now I'm gazing at this very view. It's always the same, yet it's always different. It's beautiful when the blues are...
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My husband and I have lived in Brazil for over a decade now, and we can't imagine returning to the States. Doesn't mean we don't appreciate all that America has done for us. We both received solid educations there. We have family ties there. We still pay federal income tax and take a keen interest in the U.S. political scene. But for retirees, living abroad can insure a quality of life that's simply no longer available in the U.S., and without running through our entire nest egg to boot. Here in Brazil we have super health care, a simpler, stress-free life, and friends from all over the world. Life abroad is not for everyone. There are risks, uncertainties, frustrations . . . but as you read through my tropical daydreams, see if you don't agree that the rewards are worth it.
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