Inside this Issue…Retire on Board a Boat, No Experience Required; Ecuador’s Most Popular Beach Town from $60,000; Puerto Rico’s New Tax Advantages; Part-Time Farming in Panama’s Highlands; The Bewitching Joys of Paris on a Budget…and Much More.
Do you like the idea of a life at sea…but only in short doses? Sunset cruises, fishing excursions, day trips, and the occasional long weekend jaunts to anchor off a remote island…? The ocean can be your playground.
Not long after arriving in Nicaragua, I’d bought a big lug of a car, a Toyota Forerunner Turbo. It cost $11,000 and I called it “Bruiser.” It clinked, razzed, burped, and generally sounded like a mobile hardware store in a blender. The CD player didn’t work, the four-wheel drive was broken, the radiator overheated after 15 minutes, and the security alarm went off indiscriminately. But it was my car, and it took me where I needed to go.