Just pubished a retirement/travel article in an online magazine, and want to share.

http://retirementandgoodliving.com/finding-a-best-friend-forever-in-ecuador/

Judyth Vary Baker was forced into early retirement from life.

Can you imagine going into hiding as your early retirement plan? Recently I read a great true story about a woman who really hasn't been allowed to have a typical life -- the kind of life where you develop a career, marry and raise a family and then retire with your husband. It started out fine for this unique woman. She was a superstar science student on her way to academic success.

Everyone wanted her to join their special programs, including several shrewd and manipulative people who ultimately made a disaster of her life. Here's quick review of her book, Me and Lee.  Better read it fast, because another powerful book is on the way!

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Me and Lee --
Review By Susan Klopfer

Can you imagine being a top, young scientist headed for academic excellence and then having your entire world turned upside down by people who don’t know or care about you?

I love true stories about brave people and Judyth Vary Baker's Me and Lee is one of the best such books I've read. Her intimate story of how she became involved with Lee Harvey Oswald is chilling.

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Buy Judyth Vary Baker's Book at this Link
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I've read nearly every JFK assassination book published, but this one is different. Judyth takes readers through her dramatic life journey, starting when she was a young academic woman on the rise and was pulled into important scientific projects by government agents. Very quickly she was used by  shrewd men and women for their gain in the strangest of conditions.

But then this young science star met a handsome, kind man who she quickly fell in love with, and had to watch as he was destroyed by a system that shows no love of humanity. Me and Lee is both a love story, and an intriguing spy novel. I challenge any JFK assassination conspiracy skeptic to read Judyth Vary  Baker’s book and then tell me that  Lee Harvey Oswald was a heartless robot who killed the president. Great reading. Every page kept me spellbound.

If you plan on seeing the newest movie coming out on JFK, I hear it is far from true. Better to buy this book and learn the true story. Why is this book so believable? Judyth includes pages of documentation. She is a brilliant researcher and knows what is needed to support her facts.
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My Big Adventure - Writing eBooks as an Expat

The Plan: Murder, Mystery Conspiracy eBook Publish Date Set For September. 

I am almost done! The Plan is with the copy editor, and should be ready by the middle of this month. I have to admit that as a retired person, I’ve been working awfully hard. But I don’t think I would be happy doing NOTHING! I am happiest when writing, and now I have more time to follow my dreams, and in such a beautiful location. I highly recommend “expating.” Here's what our week looks like:

In the next hour, Fred and I are going out to lunch with a couple of soon-to-be expat friends from Arizona, who are planning to come back to Cuenca to retire next year. We actually have a busy schedule this week —three lunch dates, a raw foods cooking class with Susan Schenck, a trip to the organic market and on Sunday, helping our friend Don Colón move his restaurant to a new location on the Central Square. Colón is a character in my book. This chef once hosted a television cooking show in Quito, and is a fun person to be around. He saves the beautiful lady, at the end! (of course).

THE PLAN is an alternative fiction novel based on the real lives of two Deep South, gay black lawyers. The bond between Clinton and Joe (one of them, married) is broken when Joe is reportedly found hanged. A suicide seems impossible to Clint, and Joe’s widow is acting cagey. Clinton Moore believes Joe Means was tortured and murdered, and that his and Joe’s shared obsession—investigating and fact gathering about the cover-up of various murders of civil rights activists, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,and President John F. Kennedy—is the reason for Joe’s death. Clinton believes he is next on the list, and that solving Joe’s murder is his only chance of survival.

When he discovers Joe’s wife has been spirited away as an expat to South America, Clinton sends his trusted legal assistant, Mollie Johnson, to Cuenca, Ecuador for the adventure of her life. She joins forces with journalist Sara Mercury, and together they take readers into the high Andes to bring home the widow, Tara Means. Filled with civil rights and alternative history, hopefully to titillate the most sophisticated conspiracy theorist, this is my first foray into thriller fiction; my goal has been to write a book that is thought-provoking and a fun read!

Reader will discover ties to the Ku Klux Klan, Militia, Neo Nazis, Chile's Colonia Dignidad, NSA, FBI,CIA and the assassinations of two famous civil rights leaders and President John F. Kennedy keep the pace moving in this historical fiction thriller novel, first of a crime action adventure and mystery series.

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My advice —Stay with the story. It's fast and furious, offers a paranormal subtheme, and includes a high-speed car chase in the Andes with Colón at the wheel. I promise you'll be surprised.

The story opens in New York City, when a friend of Clinton Moore, a history professor and crime sleuth reads news of an upcoming trial in Chile. One of his own colleagues disappeared in a South American CIA-supported torture camp, Colonia Dignidad, and he plans to travel to Santiago, to aid his friend's sister who will be testifying.

THE PLAN moves to the Mississippi delta, as Clinton Moore lays out the story of why he and his friend have been murdered. But then, it is on to Cuenca, Ecuador as a talented paralegal tries to save the wife of her (now) dead boss’s dead best friend!

Does Mollie Johnson have a ghost of a chance finding Tara Means? Perhaps she does, when a compromised but passionate journalist, fired from The Dallas News for writing too many JFK assassination stories, tries to help, with interference (good and bad) from an Embassy attaché, a flirtatious Cuencano chef and a very old CIA asset with ties to the assassinations AND to Colonia Dignidad!

Are you looking for adventure and mystery? THE PLAN is based on a true story, and is a work of historical or alternative fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events, and incidents either come from my imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

ALTERNATIVE HISTORY CATEGORY

—Historical Fiction

—Alternative Fiction Novel

—Mystery Novels

—Crime Thriller

—Action and Adventure

ISBN-10:  0-9826049-7-1

ISBN-13:  978-0-9826049-7-7

THE PLAN - an alternative history adventure and mystery novel - is set for publication in September of 2013. - See more at: Ebooks From Susan

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Found a great vet in Cuenca, Ecuador: will treat emergencies!

Dr. Javier Gallardo, Cuenca, Ecuador veterinarian

We had a vet emergency on a Sunday night. Tried calling every vet listed with 24 hour emergency designation and either they didn't answer, or would not come in.Then we found a phone number for  Dr. Gallardo. He said to come to his clinic, where he met us and treated our dog. He was wonderful! We will use him for both pets, and highly recommend.his services. He speaks very little English but uses a Spanish translator on his PC and this worked fine for us.

His phone number is 2816869 or 0987232618. He was featured in a news story at http://www.eltiempo.com.ec/noticias-cuenca/120811-veterinaria-gallardo-con-nuevo-local/

It's like this: I love my animals more than most people. It scared the heck out of me when my new, little rescue dog got so sick, and I couldn't help her. Cheryl ate something BAD on the street and started getting very ill, late at night. So I was so thankful to find this nice vet!

The Plan Starts in New York City, Moves to the Mississippi Delta, and Winds Up in the South American Andes of Ecuador

A sunset in the Andes of Ecuador

I am so close! The Plan is in final editing stages. From here, it goes to a formatter, and then to Amazon! The cover has been designed, and it's fantastic. I am so excited to be about to share this book with  my friends. Here's the basic summary:

A sunset in the Mississippi Delta

The Plan is A MURDER MYSTERY, HISTORICAL FICTION THRILLER that opens in New York City, but quickly moves to the Deep South. The bond between Clinton and Joe, two gay, black lawyers (one of them, married) is broken when Joe is found hanged. A suicide seems impossible to Clint, and Joe’s widow is acting cagey. Clinton Moore thinks Joe was murdered, and that his and Joe’s shared obsession, investigating and fact gathering about the cover-up of various murders of civil rights activists, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and of John F. Kennedy, is the reason for Joe’s death. Clinton feels he is next on the list, and that solving Joe’s murder is his only chance of survival. When he discovers that Joe’s wife has been spirited away to South America, he sends his trusted legal assistant, Mollie, to Ecuador to check it out. (See more at: http://ebooksfromsusan.com.)

Got to get to work,, though. Thanks for stopping by!  Susan Klopfer