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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
East Lansing, Michigan, located directly east of Lansing, has a population of 48,844 (2017 census) and by all means is a college town as it is best known as the home of Michigan State University, founded in 1855, and a member of the Big Ten Conference. With an undergraduate enrollment of approximately 39,000 students, the average age in East Lansing…...
Magnolia is a very small town of less than 1,000 near the Delaware Bay in southern Delaware (Kent County). Picture of the John B. Lindale House, listed on the National Register of Historic Places courtesy of Wikipedia and Jack E. Boucher, (public domain), photo of Magnolia Fire Company, with Town Hall and water tower in background courtesy of Wikipedia and…...
Lansdowne, Virginia, is a census-designated place and planned community close to the town of Leesburg, which is the county seat of Loudoun County. Lansdowne is located 32 miles northwest of Washington D.C. Its diverse population in 2020 was 12,427, and is primarily made up of young professionals and families with children, as the school system here is highly rated. Lansdowne…...
Spring Hill Florida is one of the northernmost retirement communities on Florida’s (west) Gulf Coast. If you drive between Tallahassee (on the inside of Florida’s elbow) down the coast toward Tampa you will be struck by how empty the landscape is for almost 100 miles. Development starts just above Spring Hill; bulldozers relentlessly churn further north from here every day.…...
