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PHOTOS LATITUDE / LADONNA
SIGHTINGS
Page 74 • Latitude 38 • July, 2010
abby — cont’d mexico
still following Abby are mostly stunned. On Abby’s Wikipedia listing,
the Sunderlands are said to be born-again Christians, and Laurence is
quoted as saying that, as such, they don’t always do things based on
reason. Abby’s sailing into the Southern Ocean in winter would seem
to be a prime example. Meanwhile, critical or even questioning posts
to Abby’s website don’t see the light of day. From the website’s point
of view, you’re either completely for Abby or you don’t exist.
• June 10 — Abby sets off two EPIRBs. The mainstream media and
popular press wet their pants, because what’s more gripping than the
possibility that a blonde California teenage girl might be dying in the
cold and lonely Southern Ocean? Conditions there hadn’t been good at
the time the EPIRBs were set off, but they hadn’t been particularly bad
either. It was just the Southern Ocean being the Southern Ocean.
• June 11 — A Qantas Airbus is chartered by the Australian gov-
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of North American cash into Mexico. In a
recent article on the website Mexinvestnow.com,
author Charles Simpson cites
the fact that Mexico is now the number
one retirement destination in the world,
with over two million Americans and Canadians
currently owning property there.
A conservative estimate of Baby Boomers
who are expected to buy property ‘south
of the border’ in the next 15 years, says
Simpson, is more than six million. Add to
this the phenominal growth of so-called
“medical tourism” to Mexico due to exorbitant
pricing in the U.S. This is such
a huge growth industry that medical ex-
Looking good! Clockwise from spread, ‘Ho Beaux’
barrels across South Bay like a freight train; the crew
of ‘Kat Den Rie’ enjoy some June sun; ‘Such is Life’
and ‘Y-Knot?’ don’t have a care in the world; a full
boatload of fun on ‘Imi Loa’; ‘Ahava’ daydreamin’.