After a going-away party the first weekend in May, Harriet and Bob Cates have been in the process of slowly moving to Costa Rica. Both are original members of Sing-Out South and also spent a number of years traveling all over the nation and the world with Up With People.
After spending a lot of their adult lives in Tennessee (particularly in Nashville), Bob and Harriet are ready for a new adventure in their new country.
After during some on-line research, I can see why they seem so excited to move there.There is one environmental group that considers Costa Rica first in the "Happy Planet Index." That index measures life satisfaction, life expectancy and ecological footprint. In fact it "ranks Costa Rica first in the world in life satisfaction, and and has the highest happiest life years." The country also has an ecological footprint that is one-quarter of the United States. In fact,overall in this survey, the U.S. ranks 114 out of 147 countries. Courtesy of YouTube, here's a quick little visit to the wonders of Costa Rica....
Given what you've just seen no wonder both Harriet and Bob are already enjoying life in Costa Rica, even if the country has a number of volcanoes and even recently had a 6.2 earthquake that apparently did very little damage....
It is hoped that Harriet and Bob will be spending some time still coming back and forth to Nashville over the next few months, especially if we have a 45th Sing-Out South Reunion event sometime during 2011. And they have family still here in town, including Bob's brother Bill and Linda Blackmore Cates who were also active in Sing-Out and Up With People.
But for now, I can't think of a better way for Baby Boomers like ourselves to wish Harriet and Bob, all the best, just like Roy Rogers and Dale Evans did, singing "Happy Trails" until we meet again...
All the best to Pudge and to Bob, who hopefully have finally found their own way to their own paradise. Who knew that was somewhere "Up The Hollow" in Costa Rica?
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