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Senior Advice: We Travel Light And Smart |
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Guest Senior Correspondent ALW, Jr., Albuquerque NM: We're retired 20 years, and thanks to pensions and good investment luck, life is just one long vacation. My spouse and I have been all over the world. Tried everything from fancy cruises to Las Vegas casinos to backpacking in Europe. We consider ourselves savvy seniors.
Planning a vacation right takes effort and research, including deciding where to go, poring over info, surfing the net and scanning sales pitches by online and hometown travel agents. Once all decisions and reservations are made, we attack pre-trip duties.
Notify the post office, newspaper dealer and others to stop delivery during our absence. We email our adult kids lists of expected destinations and schedules. On the day before departing, we pack the bags. In early retirement days, we dragged along big suitcases, and had to check them before flights. Then, on landing, it always seemed they'd be the last bags off the airport merry-go-round. Now we take carry-ons and never need to check anything.
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Solar Impulse 2: Will Sky-Sailing Ever Go Commercial? |
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The experimental aircraft recently completed of round-the-world flight. It was propelled strictly by the sun’s power, with no need for fossil or other types of today's expensive and volatile fuel.
While solar-powered commercial aircraft are still decades into the future, consider the advantages when it happens. With no dependence on the price-manipulated oil industry, passenger fees should be considerably lower.
Aboard the quiet aircraft, the experience will feel like a sailing schooner in the sky, with the design of a luxury cruise ship. The interior will be roomy for strolling passengers and gatherings, rather than today’s required stuffing everyone into a tight seat during flight.
On its around-the-world journey, Solar Impulse 2 flew at a speed of 35 mph, about 10 mph faster than the average cruise ship. As with ocean-going vessels, the aircraft will also be be affected by winds and weather. www.bbc.com/news/science-environment
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San Diego CA: Fern Street Circus Brightens Airport |
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The unfunny political circuses are over in Cleveland and Philadelphia. So, if your travels take you to San Diego International during the next three months, you can enjoy some real circus fun.
While you’re stalled in a long security line before your flight, or waiting for your luggage after landing, relax and watch the show. Enjoy clowns, jugglers, acrobats and other performers as they make your anxious airport experience more pleasant.
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Senior Tour: Visit The Queen Mary And Catalina Island |
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Guest Senior Writer PMM, San Diego CA: We recently took a two-week senior tour with Road Scholar. The first week was spent aboard the 80-year-old, original Queen Mary luxury liner now permanently docked in the harbor at Long Beach, California. The schedule included tours of the ship's wheelhouse and engines, as well as lectures, fine dining, entertainment and pictorial history. In her cruising days, the Queen served as both a celebrity luxury liner since the 1930s, and World War II troop ship in the 1940s.
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Carpentras, France: Explore The Seasonal Markets |
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It’s a charming town in the heart of Provence, offering a bounty of delicious, ethnic foods and fine, locally produced wine. It makes a great focus for a trip to the quiet region, away from Paris and other busy French cities.
Getting to Carpentras: It’s about 40 minutes drive from Avignon, the largest city in the area. France's high-speed TGV train offers an easy three-hour ride from Paris. The area is also a picturesque drive on France's easy-to-navigate highway system.
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