Archive for September, 2008

What Don’t We Have on Margarita Island?

What Don’t We Have on Margarita Island? “We got sunlight on the sand, we got moonlight on the sea, we got mangoes and bananas you can pick right off the tree” and we got dames…everywhere you look there are beautiful women! (to mangle a phrase from the musical “South Pacific”) We also have some of [...]

Beaches Of Margarita Island

Beaches Of Margarita Island The huge birdcage at the entrance – 8 feet high and large enough to hold about six standing people and looks like a medieval torture chamber. One sassy parrot greets visitors in several languages; his less gregarious cage-mates just do the parrot thing. That’s the first thing you notice at Jak’s, [...]

Cheapest Vacation Spot in the Caribbean

Cheapest Vacation Spot in the Caribbean 20¢ Beer, $2.00 Rum, 15¢ Gas, & $20 Companions These are true prices! It’s like stepping back in time to the 1950’s…but there are still cell phones, color T.V., computers, thong bikinis and jets, you know, all the ‘necessities of life’. Margarita Island is located just off the northern [...]

Retire in the Caribbean on $800 per Month?

Retire in the Caribbean on $800 per Month? Do you know the average life span in the United States is 76.9 years? That’s 28,068 days and I have already lived 21,900 of them, which means that I have only 6168 days left and I really want to make the most of them. That is unless [...]

Moving Abroad to Venezuela

Moving Abroad to Venezuela Real Estate is cheaper abroad, well most likely anyway. There are places where you get houses for less than US$30,000 but who would like to live there. Apart of that it is not that easy to move abroad. The Language for example: How like to learn a new language? It is [...]

10 Years on Margarita Island

Making A Business And Living In The Caribbean Here some stories about life on a tropical island. After living some ten years on Margarita Island I can truly give an honest opinion about life here. First of all let me tell you that life on an island, especially a tropical one, is incomparable to life [...]