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If accessing good quality health care is important to you, then the affordable health care in Panama will make it easy for you focus on the other aspects of a retirement in paradise.

The Costa Rican government wants to position Costa Rica as a true retirement haven and has declared retirement communities aimed at U.S. pensioners to be “of national interest.”

Airlines now charge up to $25 for the first checked bag, $35 for the second and $100 apiece for each additional bag.

Around midway through my research for the first edition of my book, Patients Beyond Borders, an old root canal became infected and I needed an extraction and implant. When my specialist in North Carolina quoted $4,100 for the procedures, I knew it was time to “walk the medical tourism talk” and head overseas for care.

Most countries’ favorite dishes have gone international. So you may wonder why “sizzling sisig” is such a rarity. It certainly sounds tasty. And it’s a staple of almost every menu in the Philippines.

I fell under the spell of Bhutan after reading a feature in National Geographic when I was 10 years old. I'd wanted to visit the place ever since. So last May, when I got a phone call in my Bangkok apartment asking if I would be interested in helping at a democracy conference in Bhutan, I shouted so loud in delight that my cat kamikazed through a screen and landed on top of a car in the street below. I haven’t seen it since.