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Bucket List Retirement Trip: The (Other) Land Down Under
March 27, 2026 -- People have many different reasons for choosing where they go on their retirement bucket list trips. But if outdoor adventures and amazing scenery make it to the top on your list, start planning your trip to New Zealand! Topretirements just completed our long anticipated trip to the land of kiwis …and it was great! New Zealand,…...
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Active adults over 50 looking for a new community where the outdoors is important should consider Bend, Oregon. Located on the Deschutes River on the eastern edge of the Cascades, the area offers great scenic beauty, skiing, mountains, golf, fishing, and more. Word about how nice this city is has gotten out: the population was 99,178 in the 2020 census,…...
A former farming village on the Coginchaug River, Durham is a small town of less than 10,000. The lovely town center is a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The west side is flanked by Metacomet Ridge, a mountainous traprock ridgeline. Picture of View from Pistapaug Mountain courtesy of Wikipedia and 5ju989nfhs50,Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0/...
Chestertown is small town of about 5,000 (2020), that is east of Baltimore on the Delmarva Peninsula, and northeast of Annapolis on the Chester River. The population is growing as more people consider it a quiet alternative to places like St. Michaels. In the mid-eighteenth century, Chestertown was considered Maryland's second leading port, after Annapolis. Chestertown is home to Washington…...
Lufkin, Texas has been selected as one of the first to receive “Texas Certified Retirement Community Certification”. Town officials, which pursued this certification as an innovative form of economic development, viewed the honor "as a verification of Lufkin's quality of life". Nacogdoches County - located 18 miles north of Lufkin - was also honored as one of the first three…...