Just beyond Banff and Lake Louise your glass-domed train glides passed the sign, The Continental Divide. Look around. You’re surrounded by some of the most spectacular scenery on the planet. These are the wilds of the Canadian Rockies, with its rugged snow-covered peaks and deep canyons, moose, elk and bear, lakes both green as emeralds…
Mornings were cool. Dry. And oddly quiet. We’d heard hippos and baboons at night, maybe hyenas, too, and a bunch of “Who knows?” sounds. Here in the Maasai Mara Game Reserve on the Kenya-Tanzania border, it could be an elephant, rhino, even lion. Whatever, it was extraordinary. And that’s exactly why we’d come to Africa….
We golf. We dance. We travel exotic lands. Maturity works for us. But what if we seniors still want jobs? Retirement is just one big, happy vacation, where the air is sweet, the water fresh, and the money and sunset everlasting. That’s the image marketers love to sell. And you can bet your Rudy Vallee…
Dearest Suddenly Senior friends, Last we checked in, both Carolyn and I had been declared in remission from our cancers. Free to travel again, we thought. Free to be us again at last! (Read all the columns to learn about that, starting here with Suddenly Senior’s birth.) But remission never lived up to its reputation….
Ever just want to get away from it all? The crowds? The news? The noise? The traffic? Of course, you do. An escape from civilization, whether for a weekend or for retirement, is elusive but, I discovered this past week, not an impossible quest. Travel for Seniors: Senior Travel Ideas, Mates, Tours, Groups Nestled in…
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