Travel/Vacation Archives - Route to Retire

Panama Vacation – Part 2 – Boquete

In my post, Panama Vacation – Part 1, I talked about the first half of our trip to Panama. If you haven’t read it yet, I recommend you check it out… a lot of good information on Nueva Gorgona and Anton Valley. But now it’s time for some Boquete talk and that’s what I’m excited about! After initially getting everyone on board for the idea of this trip, I started researching. I dug into a lot of areas in the country that interested me as a potential place to retire and we all tossed around our different ideas. Finally, Mrs. R2R and I proposed an itinerary to my brother and sister-in-law. It involved the hot sun, ocean, and beaches of Nueva

Panama Vacation – Part 1 – Nueva Gorgona and Anton Valley

We finally made the trip I’ve been waiting for… our Panama vacation! And guess what – it was awesome! Because there’s a lot to cover, I thought I’d break this up into a couple posts. This first post will cover the first half of our trip and the second post will cover the second half – easy enough, right? 🙂 If you’ve been following my adventures, you know that I’ve been doing a lot of digging to determine if Panama is the perfect place for us to retire. You might also know that I’ve become a lot more serious about the idea over the past year. Well, reading’s not enough, so taking the trip was the best way to determine

Panama Vacation Booked… Check!!

Well, we’re making it happen… we just finished booking our Panama vacation. I’ve heard all kinds of good things about the country for retirees and it’s really peaked my interest… enough so that we’ve been digging into the idea for quite a while now. We’ve learned quite a bit more about the country since I wrote my post “Is Panama the Right Place to Retire?“ a year and a half ago. We’ve been reading everything we can find out about the country and I talked to someone who lives there to get some feedback as well. Through our digging, we now have a better idea of the geography and the places that seem intriguing to live. We also have a somewhat better understanding

2017 Personal and Financial Goals

Well, it’s 2017, which means it’s time to take stock of how your previous year went, but more importantly, you should set your sights to the future and get your personal and financial goals put in place for the year. Here are my plans for the year… My 2017 Financial Goals Buy another rental property Buying rental property is an important stream of passive income that I’m working on building. Currently, we own a couple of rental properties – a single-family house and a duplex. They’re both filled and the duplex brings in a much better cash flow, but either way, I’m happy with the direction things are going. But now it’s time to expand. One of my financial goals in the long-run is

The Cost of Vacation

Just got back from a great vacation in Texas. My brother and his wife moved to Austin about a year ago so we went to visit them. They just built a really nice house with a pool, hot tub, cabana, outdoor kitchen, etc. – how can you pass up a visit with all this good stuff?!! So we stayed at their “oasis” for a little over a week and had a great time. Unfortunately, I was so relaxed that I realized I had forgotten to think of what to write about this week. So I decided that I’ll give you a breakdown of what we spent on this trip to get your feedback on if we spent too much money or got away with

Four Weddings and Maybe My Funeral…

Today I’m getting slightly off track because I need to rant and, well, it’s my blog so I’m going to go for it! Ok, first off, maybe four weddings is an exaggeration… I have three to go to in the next month. And maybe it’s not really going to be my funeral, but it sure feels like it! Here’s the problem… Wedding number one is out-of-town – it’s in the big city… New York City. I hate the big city. I’m a suburbs kind of guy. I don’t care for the hustle-bustle of big cities like Chicago and, even though I haven’t been there before, I’m going to assume NYC as well. Now, I know a lot of you live for

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