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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…...
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Ashburn, located in Northern Virginia, about 30 miles northwest of Washington DC, is part of the Dulles Technology Corridor and referred to as “Data Center Alley”, with much of the world's Internet traffic traveling through here. Many of the residents in Ashburn work in DC, or for one of the many high-tech businesses in the Technology Corridor. The median household…...
Home to a top and well-respected liberal arts college, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, is a quaint, small town located just east of Philadelphia. Swarthmore College was founded in 1864, by Quakers who were granted land by William Penn, but it has no religious affiliation today. During the late 1880's, passenger trains from Philadelphia made stops in Swarthmore which encouraged its development in…...
Columbus, Georgia, is the second largest city in the state, and the county seat of Muscogee County, with a population of 202,824, (2013 census). It is located 100 miles southwest of Atlanta, and sits directly across the Chattahoochee River from Phenix City, Alabama. Columbus is a historical town, dating back to the Civil War, and is is one of the…...
Pasadena, the City of Roses, is a small city of almost 150,000 that is located north of Los Angeles. It is most famous as the home of the Rose Bowl and the Tournament of Roses Parade. the cultural center of the area with several colleges (Cal Institute of Technology) and many leading museums such as the Norton Simon and the…...
