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100-Year-Old Guy Makes First Parachute Jump


A brave codger from Tennessee recently fulfilled a life-long bucket list wish. He hit the wild blue yonder like a WWII 101st Airborne paratrooper over Normandy, and landed safe and sound. Will your travel4seniors.com editor be brave enough to try the same thing in just 8 1/2 years?

I wore a parachute many times in my WWII and Korean War travels as a scared-spitless passenger in U.S. Navy aircraft. Fortunately, I never had to jump, and now sure I never will. However, here’s my own bucket list of seven first-time experiences I’d like to try when I hit 100:

Win millions of bucks on the lottery and in Vegas
Hike the Great Wall of China
Ride a mule down into the Grand Canyon
Dine in 2025 at the White House with President Whoever
Long talk with comic genius Mel Brooks, also hitting 100
Have funny dance with Julia Louis Dreyfus as Elaine
Scuba with the dolphins in Mexico’s Cabo San Lucas
Tokyo, Japan: Bot Clerks Do Check-Ins & Other Duties PDF Print E-mail


For senior fans of science fiction, this is no surprise. It was just a matter of time when bots take over many human jobs, including hotel services. Last year, evil-looking android male clerks became part of the new Harry Potter hotel exhibit in Florida’s Universal Theme Park.

They look real, but other than automatic moves, don’t actually do anything. Now, it’s happening at another theme park, the Huis Ten Bosch in Tokyo, at its new Henn-na Hotel. Here the robotic clerks are amazingly and anatomically real, and they actually check in arriving guests.

They resemble pretty young smiling women, giving and taking info. This situation requires a stern message for senior guy travelers to Tokyo: No matter how lifelike they seem, you can’t take one up to your hotel room with you.

www.japantimes.co.jp/.../28/...park-get-hotel-staffed-robots
 
 
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