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Best Sports for Longevity?
January 15, 2025 -- Want to live longer - we sure do, assuming we have some degree of functioning. This interesting article from the NY Times shows results of multiple studies on longevity and various activities. Those include walking, biking, tennis, and golf. Guess which one seems to give the highest boost to living a long life? It's tennis. One…...
Top Retirement Towns
Waretown is a small town of about 1,500 people about midway down New Jersey's Atlantic Coast. If you come through NJ on the Garden State Parkway you will go very near Waretown. To its west are the famous pine barrens of New Jersey....
Cottonwood, population 11,500, is located in central Arizona, where the scenery is pretty, the values conservative, and the outdoor activities aplenty. Cottonwood is ringed with mountains and buttes, and it either contains or is minutes from golfing, canyons, thousand-year-old dwellings and wineries. A historic downtown, well-maintained, caps off the charm of this community. Photo of historic downtown Cottonwood courtesy of…...
The title of the most artistic little town in west Texas would probably be awarded to Marfa. Marfa was actually named after Marfa Strogoff, a character in Jules Verne's novel Michael Strogoff. This little town of about 2,000 near the Big Bend is home to a vast array of artistic treasures, thanks to the efforts of Donald Judd. This minimalist…...
Denver, Colorado, the "Mile High City", offers just about every type of living arrangement, recreational opportunity, and cultural program that an active adult could want. All of this is in an unusually beautiful setting with the Rocky Mountains towering overhead. The City and the County of Denver has over 715000 residents (2020), and about 2.4 million in the Denver-Aurora metropolitan…...