If on your next visit to Washington DC and happen to see President Barack Obama hanging out in front of a red sandstone building at 1025 F Street NW, don’t be surprised. But, on closer examination, you’ll discover he’s a dummy.

Despite what Republicans may call him, the figure is a real dummy. It’s a wax duplicate of the President set out there to induce people to cough up $25 each to enter the city’s Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum.

The original Madame Tussaud's has been in London since 1835. In addition to the Washington DC museum, which opened in 2007, there are branches in Amsterdam, Berlin, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Hollywood, New York City and Las Vegas.

In 1923, Sam, Jack, Harry and Albert Warner opened a modest silent movie studio on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. It grew through the years and is now a giant entertainment complex just a few miles up the freeway in Burbank.

If your travels include the Los Angeles area, be sure to save a day to take the nostalgic Warner Brothers Studio Tour. There are various tour packages, and tickets cost from about $62 per adult and $52 for kids under 13.

The tours include actual visits to current movie and TV sets and sound stages, as well as buildings, costumes and artifacts that date back to the early days. Nostalgic seniors can fondly recall the roster of great Warner Brothers stars of the past, including Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Gary Cooper, Errol Flynn, Burt Lancaster and many, many others. For more info, wbstudiotour.com

There are ways for seniors to protect your health while flying, but it isn't easy these days. Heavy crowds, delays, bad food, security ordeals and dozens of other anxieties are enough to upset any healthy person, young and old. However, you can fight back to get to your destination in good mood, health and comfort. It won't always be easy, but here are some tips:

1. Bring an adequate supply of regular prescription meds to take at your normal daily schedule for duration of the trip plus a week extra. Also have necessary over-the-counter meds, such as allergy, aspirin and anti-diarrhea pills.

2. Carry a basic first aid kit, including single-use bandages and tube of antibacterial ointment. Use them for small cuts or scrapes. Also, to fight recirculated airport and cabin air, dab some near nostrils, mouth and eyes.

Your travel4seniors.com editor been on dozens of cruises since retirement 25 years ago, and has suggestions on how to make the best and most satisfying deals.

1. Travel light. After our second or third cruise, we stopped dragging suitcases and being required to check them everywhere we went. We each took a wheeled carry-on bag and knapsack, and never again checked anything.

Suitcases on flights and cruises must be checked, and the waiting and wondering everywhere you have to retrieve them just adds to the stress. On several occasions, fellow passengers lost luggage, and had to buy entirely new outfits from expensive onboard shops.