Thanks everybody for all the advice! I do appreciate it and now will try to digest it all. I would love to go to a bike shop and buy a nice new bike but I know that is flying with the wife for this year! So, I will keep my eye open for a good deal and look around at the shops at used bikes as well. I wish now I would have bought a used Trek I saw last year but I went cheap since I didn't know if I would actually want to stay with it. I am just happy to be out of the polar vortex! Worst winter I have had as far as low temperatures in 5 decades and it was in the 70's today, first time that it was this warm since early October.
Cyclocross, among others, are totally new terms for me! So I will try to pick up on some of this, start with a little better used bike and see where it takes me in the future. I many end up with one of those recumbent trikes eventually, I like those but they are pricey for what I can do this year. I always enjoy the recumbent exercise bike.