Recent content by rnsmth

I added some AAPL Jan 2010 $180 calls today to a long position today.

There is a lot to be said for having your own kitchen - especially if one is diabetic, as I am. We do not have an RV, and many of our vacations are in Mexico. We usually stay at places where we have a kitchen. There can be an enormous savings there given the outrageous prices at even...

Off Isla de Mujeres, Mexico

Jalapa is a place we plan to visit. Part of our plan is to do quite a bit of exploring during our first few years there. It is a large, varied country

It has been a wonderful 4 months in the market. Because of that, I have moved 30% of my self-managed accounts to cash (money market funds) for a while. New monthly money is 50% equities. I am far more pleased with this year than last year ;D;D

I have never been there, but I have read good things about it. There is an American who has lived there for many decades - Roy. If you do a search on Jalapa Roy, you will find his website. He is a fountain of information about that area

Anything below 65 is flannel shirt weather for me ;D;D Guanajuato is lovely. It is our favorite non-coastal city in Mexico. The steps on the left side of the photo lead to the University of Guanajuato, one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the hemisphere.

Not in the last couple of years. Isidore was in 2002. Hurricane Isidore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Caribbean side gets hit more often, and I have friends there who have been through several hurricanes in past few years. It is hot for a few months a year :) Mexico is a culture...

We're pretty much on board with the big things. She tends a bit more to the just one more year side of planning, but we have agreed on a date -July 1, 2011 with a contingency in regard to asset values at that time. We've been together for over 30 years and been through a lot. We'll get...

Thanks M :greetings10: Significant cost reductions are good !

I think you are right on both counts - in regard to the Portland RE market and on the point that costs are driven by lifestyle choices. Generally though, many parts of life (housing, medical care and insurance, food costs, household help, entertainment, dining out, travel), are less expensive...

No chronic conditions - but let me be a bit more clear - these are not USA insurance policies they have. They are international policies. With many of these, if you get sick in the US, you get 30 days of treatment to get well enough to get back to Mexico. I took their word for it that it...

We had dinner with a couple in Merida, Mexico in December. They retired there about 5 years ago. They said that to maintain their insurance in Colorado would have cost them about $12,000 a year. They were paying $3,000 a year for an international policy. He just turned 60, she is a a few...

We like our little home, and I do not think we will be putting on the market now - if we are not there yet, we are probably within a year of the bottom of real estate prices, I think. We plan to put it on the market in the Spring of 2011. We have traveled to Mérida and/or the Yucatán...

Hi, my name is Ron. I am 57 1/2 and plan to retire in 2011 - a bit contingent on no further big losses in asset values, particularly in housing in the Portland, Oregon area. I work for an entity that is covered by the Oregon Public Employees Retirement System. My employer has an early...