Hope all goes well!

thanks sheryl – it’s coming down to the wire!!!!

You both are in my prayers. How exciting. Please keep me posted. Love you! Miss you terribly.

hi debbie–

thanks for all your wishes and prayers! We’re going to need all the help we can get! it’s down to the wire!
i signed you up so you’ll know when a new post goes up

thanks again

david

We wish you both the best of luck and will be thinking of you two.
Love to you both

Good luck.

thanks! we’ll miss you

–david

thanks terry.
i’ve put you on our mailing lis.

Add me to the list. Am praying for ya’ll. Will call after I get results from the MRI. I’m still envious – I want to go to Mexico!!!
Love,
Gary

I can’t say enough how much I will miss you too!!!! Please take me too!!!!

Johnice–

that swimming pool’s awaiting for you. the temp there yesterday was 75.

I am thinking of moving to Mexico and am wondering how your move is going? Are you having an exciting adventure??

It has been an exciting adventure from the “get go”. From the decision making process…should we go?….can we do it?….good grief, you’ve got to be kidding me….all this needs to be done before hand!! And, now, here we are a week away from making the actual move. Exciting yes. Thought provoking, yes. A learning experience, yes. Fun, yes. And there is more to come. Take a look at our past blogs and you will get a feel for the process! Thanks for your comment!!

Couldn’t help but notice how your stories mirrored our own experience when we made the move from Chicago to Ajijic 5 years ago … we are happy to tell you that it will all be worth the efforts … it seems that every day here in Paradise is better than the day before. Bienvenidos! Please feel free to contact us … we have the answers to all those questions you’ll have once you’re here. Debra & Tom

we have been living in Leon,GTO for about a year. We are interested in information about recieving prescription medications from the US. Many of my meds I can buy here but some are not carried in Mexico.

Hi Peter–

I wish I could help you there. Most of the meds Les and I take are available here in Mexico, although the generics are sometimes hard to find. From people I’ve spoken with, if you try to import your meds, say via mail boxes etc., they’ll just be confiscated at customs.

Two alternatives come to mind. The first is to go to the border and bring them across yourself. you shouldn’t have any trouble doing that. In some towns, there are bulletin boards listing people who are going back to the states. they can pick up your meds for you and bring them back in when they return.

Alternatively, I’ve known people who took the route of just going to a competent Mexican doctor, explaining what meds they took in the states, and asking them to prescribe something that they can buy in Mexico.

good luck,

–david

Hi,
I just found your wonderful site about moving to Mexico. How is the receiving your social security checks working out? I use BofA in the USA..will I have to open an account at a Mexican Bank? Do strictly use your ATM card to access your money? Are you hit with fees doing this? Any info sure would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Michael

Just wanted to wish you two a merry christmas, miss having you around Dallas but your place is amazing! on a christmas miracle note, we just received our temporary certificate of occupancy for 511. so we can sign leases!

joann_aaron@yahoo.com

please add me to your mailing list! thanks.

please put me on your newsletter list

We’re planning on doing the same in the next couple of years. Buenas suerte!!

Love Mazatlan. Hoping to retire their. Please subsribe me to Boomers
Thanks

Yes please put me on your list. I’ll enjoy hearing about your adventures. We’re thinking next winter we need to come down and check it out as well. Getting close to retiring….

M’y mother retires to Guadalajara 50 tzars ago. I’m thinking about doing it top!

This is a most enchanting site. I came across you blog on Wednesday and have spent a number of hours since then reading each one, including the comments.
I have been having conversations in my head in response to your stories.

I have a friend in Ajijic who uses Skype on the computer to keep in touch with her family, and sometimes me. There is a free download on their website and there is a video function. By the way, I am going to suggest she (Joelle) visit your blog.

I have only a little idea of the laws around employment in Mexico, mostly what I learned from you. I woke up about 2:30 this morning wondering if you are planning on offering these beautiful photographs for sale on your web site. Why couldn’t David take pictures for the real estate offices, with permission of course, and post them to a “members only” section of the web site, where they could be purchased. I think that you would not need permits for sales on the web, but I have not checked that out.

I found out about Ajijic in June 2008, and knew through a series of serendipitous events that I want to retire there. Since then I have spent many hours exploring information on Ajijic, and retirement in Mexico. I currently live in Salem, Oregon but have lived in a variety of places, including Alaska, Canada, India, Nepal, Thailand. I was born and raised in Chicago, and have seen the beautiful sunrises over Lake Michigan.

I have been informally studying Spanish, and plan to take some classes before I arrive. Below is my favorite Spanish quote, and after reading your entire blog think it is relevant to you both.

Extiende las alas,
volar, volar,
que es bello de ver.

Joan Riley
20 months to Ajijic and counting.

Great blog, you guys!

Find it all fascinating from NOB…and especially love the mirador thread.

We are starting our quest for the perfect retirement spot on the Yucatan in Mexico. We have just begun researching and would appreciate any assistance to overcome some of the hurdles.

i am so excited i have 688 days before i move with all of you (less if i can figure out how) from salt lake city, utah

My husband and I will be moving to Ajijic the end of May from Vero Beach Florida. We are actually having a house built there. We might be considered crazy for doing that. We’ll find out. We’ll have some questions for you regarding the border crossing.

We are building an equestrian community just east of Chapala. Will finish the first house this year, and will be moving down as soon as our house in New Jersey sells (don’t hold your breath!).

Love your blog and photos!

Thank you for this terrific blog. It’s another great resource for those of us who are hurling ourselves headlong into a similar move to the Lakeside area, knowing we have not done enough research to warrant such an adventure. I’ll arrive in August and hope to run into you both sometime thereafter, figuratively speaking, of course. Cheers!

I love your blog and photos. Love how you tell about Lake Chapala. In fact, if I met you guys, I’d probably love you too.

Please add me to your subscription email list. I really enjoy reading your blog.

Please subscribe me!

Hi Sarah

We didn’t get your email address for your kind request to be on our subscribers list. Thank you so much for your comments. Please email me at les@boomerstomexico.com and I’ll add you immeidately. Looking forward to hearing from you often. I’m sure we’d love you too!

Les

I am hooked! What a great Blog. Carol (my better half) just mentioned I must stop reading now and get some work done, but I shall return.

Bill

Les and David – Please sign us up so we receive notice of new entries. We’ll be down in another week and we will give you a call with the hope that we can meet up for a drink and a chat. Hasta entonces.

Beth

Your site was recommended by Sid at Chapala Club. I have been reading it for three days now and I am not sure I have read it all yet. It is fabulous. Your wit and style is so much fun to read. The pictures are wonderful. I want to move to Chapala but my husband says he is too old and tired. Hopefully he will change his mind. If B.H. O. gets his way with the health care bill He may change it real quick. Please sigh me up for your newsletter. Thanks Betty