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I had a good Day 3 on my challenge with 15,133 steps. A very good start and I ate well all weekend.

I'm continuing my studies of modern American religions. My latest study is the Hare Krishna movement. While many would argue that the Krishna consciousness movement is neither modern or American, I believe it qualifies as both. The leaders of the movement are mostly American and the "founder" of ISKCON, Swami Prabhupada, died in 1977 and the movement did not take off until he came to America in the mid-1960's.

I'm exploring investing in Ecuador as a potential retirement community. The cost of living is about 1/3 that of Canada, has good health care and is safe by South American standards or even most parts of the world. You can believe that I will do my homework before I consider investing. I find Canada to be too cold for my liking. I had looked at Costa Rica and other Central American properties before. This is a long term goal but now is the time to start planning. If nothing else you can invest and rent out property. You can always sell in the future.

The Canadian economy is falling further behind the US. In fact the US economy is in very good shape with a high US dollar and low unemployment. The NYSE has performed extremely well the past decade. I'm not confident about the Canadian economy in the long term. I'm not panicking but I have already moved some investments offshore both in the US and around the world. I'm just directing my monthly payroll deductions towards offshore vehicles. I may have been too late for the US investments.