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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

Battle Of The Painfully Reclining Aircraft Seatbacks PDF Print E-mail


As airlines keep packing more passengers into their airborne sardine cans, the space between rows in the cheap seats section gets smaller and smaller. And when the passenger in front puts his seatback in recline position, it’s painful to those behind it, especially tall, leggy ones.

If you’re having space invasion problems while flying, check on such devices as the Knee Defender. They’re plastic, foldable and easy to apply in front of your seat. Of course, you may first politely ask that the seatback not be slammed suddenly into your vulnerable kneecaps.

Or you can be just as mean as the seatback pusher and apply the device secretly and securely when you first sit down. Then enjoy the classic scene of the pitiful pusher suffering Sisyphus struggles.

 
 
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