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For anyone planning a SCUBA trip or even a snorkeling trip to Cayman, do yourself a favor and wait a few years. DH and I are there now and we have been shocked at how little life we’ve seen on the reefs, or even in the deep blue off the walls. Our divemasters tell us that it’s a combination of...

We will be in Croatia for about 3 weeks in July/August. The plan is: - 5 nights in Rovinj - 2 nights in Plitvice Lakes - 2 nights TBD - Zadar or Split or Primosten or …? - 7 night cruise from Split to Dubrovnik. This includes a tour of the palace in Split and Old Town Trogir. Also includes a...

This may be naive, but I was just blown away today. My brother-in-law, who has been living in Memory Care for the last 5 years, recently passed away. I heard the news a week ago and today I pulled out a copy of his will and realized I was named the executrix. I called his sister, who has been...

DH and I are planning a European trip. We are starting with a few days in Venice, followed by Slovenia, and then at least 10-15 days on the Croatia mainland. After that, we have time in our itinerary to take a small boat cruise around either the southern islands of Croatia (Brac, Korcula, Vis)...

I wasn’t sure whether to post this in the travel or health forum, but DH had a quadruple bypass in 2022. He recovered well and his cardiologist said he was fine to resume diving. Wondering if anyone on this forum who still SCUBA dives also had heart surgery? When we booked a trip on a Great...

I started looking at flights for our summer 2024 trip to Europe. I’ve never flown Air Europa before, and online reviews are pretty bad. However their pricing is about half of other airlines such as Delta, United, SwissAir and Air France. The online complaints I see are mostly about crappy...

I would like to extend my heartfelt gratitude to posters on this forum. Without you, it would have been FAR more confusing to navigate the plethora of choices with respect to Medicare supplemental coverage. Also, we would not have known about the "closing the books" issues with Mutual of Omaha...

Sometime this summer, likely July/Aug/early Sept., DH and I are planning to go to visit close friends who are moving to one of the Greek Islands. DH and I will likely start in Venice, explore Croatia and Western Greece, and then go down to the islands and visit our friends. My girlfriend and I...

Now that we’ve moved to FL, DH and I want to go on a SCUBA trip to the Caribbean for a few weeks. We aren’t interested in considering other regions because FL is so close to the Caribbean and we love the ease of getting there from FL. Our criteria are: - Minimal gear hauling. We are willing to...

DH and I recently bought a golf cart to use in our new FL neighborhood. The golf cart is not street legal, max speed of 25 mph, and has two rear-facing seats with seat belts. Our intent is to use it to ride around the neighborhood, take it to the Clubhouse, etc. We had no problem insuring the...

We moved DH’s mother into a Memory Care facility in March. We’ve been fairly pleased overall, but while visiting this week, we noticed that her sheets and pajama bottoms were stained and staff hadn’t noticed it, nor had she. We brought it to their attention and still had to follow up twice to...

Three weeks ago, a 54 year old friend had a brain aneurysm. His wife finally made the difficult decision based on advice of the docs to take him off life support and he passed away night before last. So sad. My heart breaks for this family. Another friend was on vacation with her husband, early...

We have a few items we don’t want to move with us, such as a 10 ft ladder and a garage cabinet, both in near new condition. In the past, we’ve used NextDoor or Facebook Marketplace to sell these types of things, and it’s always gone really well. This time, the only people contacting me are total...

We will be moving in October and need to change our health insurance to a FL plan. Neither of us is on Medicare yet. We want a PPO plan that gives us lots of options. We will be living in the Sarasota area. If anyone has suggestions about good insurance plans that are PPO’s, I’d appreciate it.

We put our home in Palm Springs on the market yesterday and by yesterday evening, we had multiple offers. Chose one to go with today and escrow will open on Monday. We will likely close in October and be on our way to a new chapter of life in Florida. We will no longer own any property in CA for...

I’m starting a new topic because we’re in escrow now on a home in the Sarasota, FL area. We will be relocating from the CA desert in the next few months, and would love some input from FL residents about the nitty gritty of South FL life. I grew up on the Gulf Coast and lived in Houston for 10...

DH and I are seriously considering relocating but not sure exactly when. He has preexisting conditions - had a quadruple bypass last year. He will turn 65 in March. We plan to get traditional Medicare with supplemental coverage. Would it make a difference whether he signs up for Medicare while...

DH and I are spending most of this summer in FL to get the vibe of different areas and decide whether we’d want to live in FL full or part time. We’ve been looking at real estate to see what you get for your money these days. So far we’ve been really impressed with several 55+ communities that...

We are exploring in FL and found an area we like that they are developing. Apparently they’re a Canadian-bases homebuilder and are one of the largest in North America. We aren’t familiar with them but a cursory search of online reviews wasn’t encouraging. Has anyone purchased a new home built...

I’m a casual hiker and want some quick drying shorts that have a deep enough pocket for the iPhone 14. I’m only 5’2” so I prefer 5” or shorter inseams. I’ve been wearing my bike shorts but they’re hot and clingy. I hike in the desert where it’s hot so want something cooler and more breathable...

DH recently turned 64. We already know we want to sign him up for traditional Medicare with a supplemental policy, How far in advance should we research specific policies? Anyone have a broker they recommend, or a recommended process if we don’t use a broker?

DH and I will be spending 3 months in FL this summer to evaluate whether we want to relocate and establish residency there. Most of that time, we will be doing house/pet sits through TrustedHousesitters, but we will have almost a month of that time on our own to explore as we wish. We want to...

My MIL had a small crisis a couple of weeks ago when she knocked on her neighbor’s door and didn’t recognize her, even though she’s known her for 15 years. It scared her enough that she realized she shouldn’t be living alone, a decision we are thrilled she came to on her own as we’ve been very...

I’m looking for advice on whether DH and I are missing any important factors or steps in the process we are going to use to evaluate relocating to FL. We decided to plan an extended visit to FL this summer to evaluate whether we may wish to relocate there. We will be staying mostly in homes...

We lived in Coastal So CA, thinking that would be our forever home, for 30+ years. After retiring and taking an extended vacation in the Desert, we decided to move to Palm Springs for the slower pace and more relaxed environment, thinking this would now be our “forever home” but keeping the...