Welcome to Crossing the Border, a limited-run weekly newsletter from The New York Times. If someone forwarded it to you, sign up here to have the next issue delivered to your inbox. Retirees in swimsuits ride their bicycles to the pool, bright noodles tucked under their arms like jousting lances. They venture into Mexico, shopping for cheap medicine, getting pedicures, undergoing low-cost dental work and sipping goblet-sized margaritas. One of their base camps was a quarter-mile from where seniors at the Victoria Palms resort in Donna deploy by the dozens to occupy five pickleball courts.

Source: New York Times March 21, 2019 15:11 UTC