The International Community Foundation is pleased to announce its “Retiring Responsibly in Mexico” research series with our first report “U.S. Retirements Trends in Mexico’s Coastal Communities:  Lifestyle Trends and Demographics.”  You can access the report here:  http://www.icfdn.org/publications/retireeresearch/. 
Forthcoming research studies will address trends in health care, volunteerism, philanthropy and civic engagement, real estate as well as the environment.  For more information on the International Community Foundation, visit our website at http://www.icfdn.org.

Tiger Woods has been on leave from professional golf, but his widely reported personal problems are not the reason for delays in launching a luxury development  located on a peninsula outside Ensenada, Mexico, about 90 miles south of San Diego, CA.

With views of the ocean at every tee or green, the Tiger Woods golf course is the centerpiece of the development planned at the tip of the Punta Banda peninsula overlooking Todos Santos Bay. The project includes 120 units, with prices starting at $3 million for a lot and $3.5 million for a condominium, according to information released at the project’s unveiling.

Read full article By Sandra Dibble at The San Diego Union Tribune site

Turtle nesting season begins in September and October in the Todos Santos area generally.  Last year the first nestings were spotted at the end of October:  Please don’t drive on the beaches!  This is one of the last pesticide free nesting ranges in the world for Caray, Leatherback, and Olive Ridley sea turtles.

Or, what do you do all day? This is what I asked my new friend Melanie when she and her husband Gunter seduced us into buying land near them, south of Todos Santos.