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I Waited 53 Years to Raft the Grand Canyon. It Was Worth Every Minute.
Some bucket list dreams take a lifetime Fifty-three years ago I stood at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. Adventurers in rubber rafts floated into view, screaming in delight as they surged through the the Colorado River’s Hermit Creek Rapids. I remember thinking, "Someday I'm going to raft that river." This June, at age 77, I finally did. If you've…...
Top Retirement Towns
Cleveland is a large industrial city of almost 400,000 on the eastern shore of Lake Erie. The birthplace of Standard Oil, the city proper has struggled in recent years with the housing market and the U.S. economy, but for the past several years the city has been going through a renaissance with new downtown restaurants, museums, and shops. The Downtown…...
Red Feather Lakes is a very small town in north central Colorado, about 50 miles northwest of Fort Collins. There are 14 lakes and 6 of them are open to the public for fishing and boating. The community of just under 600 people is surrounded by the Roosevelt National Forest and near the Poudre Valley. Some of its amazing outdoor…...
A town of under 7,000 in Sussex County, and growing rapidly, Millsboro is located in southeast Delaware, not far from Rehoboth Beach and Delaware's beaches. It is a small, pretty historical town. Its origins come from being the first point on the Indian River narrow enough to build a dam for water power. Millsboro had always been a market center…...
Mesquite is an extremely popular retirement town in southeastern Nevada, almost in Arizona and Utah. Mesquite was originally settled by Mormons as a farming community in the Virgin River Valley. Casinos arrived here in the 1970's. The town markets itself as a low key alternative to Las Vegas. The population increased over 125% between 2000 and 2020 (to about 21,000…...