Top 10 Must Haves: To Make Retirement A Blast

tomorrow because you'll look at the clock and think, "Oh, I haven't done my steps," and actually, speaking of hiking, we did a wonderful hour. a walk and a half this morning was beautiful, we have wonderful weather at the moment and we actually saw two herons, it was absolutely beautiful, so we are going out and we have the four colors at the moment, it is probably already past its peak in our area, but it's still beautiful to come out through the trees and see all these glorious colors of gold and red, they are absolutely beautiful, because there are many people in the world, Norm, who don't get the wonderful change of colors that we are coming to Canada.

We're very lucky.lucky we are, in fact we are, it's a computer like one more smart thing we bought when we retired and we did it specifically for traveling so why don't you tell everyone what that smart thing we bought is ? will be our new Nexus card, now we have had the previous Nexus card, but ours ran out, so we just renewed our Nexus card, which lasts us five years and only costs fifty US dollars each, yes, and particularly for the fact that, um, we. When we are planning our trips to the US, this will be a very good way to enter and exit the US in a faster way by passing through customs.

It's basically a VIP card, so when everyone is lining up to try to cross the Ambassador Bridge. or the Blue Water Bridge in Ontario and there's an hour long line of cars, yeah there's a center lane that's empty, it says we can drive there to Nexus, they say here we are, yeah, and a lot of times there's not even an agent customs there, we just wait. our cards go up, the barrier goes up and we leave, we did this specifically when we were flying because the Toronto airport is famous, you take your flight back to Toronto and there are most likely eight or ten other flights that end up on of thousands of people landing and We're all shoved into this arrivals hall depending on which terminal they're in, but we've spent hours waiting to get through customs and you're exhausted coming back from Europe, yeah, so we've got these Nexus cards and again there's a Nexus area that you walk to and there's no crowds, no, so we get through the Nexus machines a lot quicker, right? because they already scanned your eyes and your fingerprints and everything is much faster, whether you come fly or conduct a traveler program, so you have to be interviewed, you have to be interrogated, have your fingerprints taken, yes, take a photograph and go meet the customs agents at your interview, but we think it's worth doing, yes, because it

make

s traveling much easier and faster for us and we just received our new cards, didn't we? a week ago?

So we're ready for overseas, which will be wonderful, it'll be really wonderful, and speaking of which, we're really looking forward to coming back. We're going to Alabama, right? Yes, ma'am, yes, we'll be with everyone else now. We just told you 10 wonderful things we have bought that have really helped us in our

retirement

. It is a pleasure that we feel that there were great investments. I'll offer you one more and what we did was we bought a very small battery that runs on its own built-in battery and it's a multi-color light so you can set it to any light. temperature and we are using it as a travel lamp because we have stayed in many Airbnbs and hotel rooms.

Hotel apartments do not have lamps, so there is no ambient lighting at night, or it is a ceiling. lamp or just terrible lighting, so we bought this on Amazon, it was very affordable and far exceeded our expectations. It gives us that wonderful ambient lighting, doesn't it? We take it to the trailer, turn off all the lights at night and just turn this on. one on and it lights it up enough to feel homey and it's warm lighting. We almost said it too and we carry it in our carry-on, the four-pound Caravan luggage, so we take it around the world with us, yeah, and we're going to take it with us, so if it could be 10, 11 or 12 best things we're talking about, we highly recommend that if you go to self-catering, uh, Airbnb, uh, VRBO, uh, maybe think about taking a little lamb with you to

make

it more cozy and homey for you in the evenings , yeah, anyway Tim, that's the ten plus one of the best things we've bought during our

retirement

, wonderful and we hope everyone stays safe and well until next time, bye. bye