Gary Coles's (garytcoles) Blog

  The Castillo San Juan de Ulúa has been a castle, a fortress, a prison and the site where parts of a major movie were filmed. It is part of the City of Veracruz, Mexico and is the island where the first Spanish landed as they conquered Mexico. As a fort it has protected the city from attacks by ...

I love the connections that grow between members of ActiveRain.  One of the ActiveRain Community Guidelines is:  "Get connected. At first ActiveRain may seem so big that you could never be heard, and so small and cliquish that you will never find your place. Everyone experiences this phenomenon! ...

As many of you know, my specialty is Latin America. I've decided this year to watch for posts that show a little bit about some of the wonderful places and re-blog them.  And, if you would like to know more about retirement homes, second homes or investments please contact me or go to my website,...

   Annette Gray is new to ActiveRain and was just featured in the Member spotlight in the ActiveRain Newsletter.  Annette describes herself as an "almost"native and grew up in the Tempe area and knows the area well.    "I am a go getter with out-of -the-box methods of advertising and marketing an...

  Fred Griffin has an excellent post about a danger we are all facing.  Please read his post.  I am disabling comments and hope you will leave comments on his post. But the most important thing is to call your Congressman and US Senators!! Google will Protest.  No more Facebook, no more YouTube, ...

The December Posting Challenge kept many of us in touch and I am continuing with a recap each week. This is for week two of 2012. My office manager Yazmine (a Siamese and great friend) has developed severe kidney problems and many of you have asked me to continue updates. All the prayers and thou...

A Year of Growing Rich:  The Blessings of Failure     This is the 38th week of a 52 week motivational journey and I want to invite you along.  Each week, I will touch on one of the chapters from Napoleon Hill's book titled  A Year of Growing Rich and subtitled "52 Steps to Achieving Life's Reward...

My cat, Yazmine, has really taught me about trust. I've been  giving a lot of serious thought to the subject of trust since it was announced as the ActiveRain challenge this month. I've read dozens of outstanding posts and each of them touched on some part of what trust means to me. Tonight, I'm ...

Are you or your clients looking for a great place to do business - take a look at Chile. Chile now ranks higher than the US in economic freedom (7th v 10th) and it is even perceived as less corupt (22nd v 24th).  The GDP in Chile is projected to grow at 6.3% this year v  2.1% in the US.  Another ...

As many of you know, my specialty is Latin America. I've decided this year to watch for posts that show a little bit about some of the wonderful places and re-blog them.  And, if you would like to know more about retirement homes, second homes or investments please contact me or go to my website,...