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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…...
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Frederica is a very small (less than 800) Delaware town just south of Dover and fairly near the Delaware River Bay. Formerly agricultural, the area is transitioning into suburbs and active adult communities are being built here as well. Picture of Barretts Chapel courtesy of Wikipedia (public domain); picture of Frederica Town Hall courtesy of Wikipedia and Smallbones (public domain)....
Puerto Vallarta is a popular tourist and retirement city on the west coast of Mexico, below Mazatlan and north of Acapulco. The city is situated on the Pacific Ocean's Bahía de Banderas. The 2010 census reported Puerto Vallarta's population as over 250,000, which makes it the second largest city in the state of Jalisco. Once a small fishing and agricultural…...
Fredericksburg, Texas is a small town north of San Antonio with a population of about 11,000. Fredericksburg shares many cultural characteristics with New Braunfels, TX, a nearby town that also has a rich German-American heritage. Fredericksburg is justly proud of its pioneer heritage, which is celebrated in places like its Pioneer Museum Complex. For a town of this size there…...
St. Petersburg is one of 3 closely related cities on Florida's Tampa Bay. The other 2 are Clearwater and Tampa (the largest and most urban of the 3). St. Pete has been a classic retirement and tourist destination since the 1920's because of its winter warmth, great beaches, and ideal location on a peninsula in Tampa Bay. One of the…...