The experience can be very stressful for both you and your best friend. The hurry-up activities, strange sights, loud noises and unfamiliar people can disturb a pet accustomed to familiar routines at home. With intelligent planning and consideration, there are ways to make the trip easier to endure.

When scheduled to fly, consider leaving your larger pet home. Have a friend or relative take over for you, or board it in a kennel. It’s frightening and stressful to fly is as a caged animal.

Senior travel correspondent PJK, Trenton NJ: We have a special connection to the Amish community in Pennsylvania. Exactly a half-century ago, in June 1966, we honeymooned there, about 100 miles west of Philadelphia. We checked into the Amish-named Foodergong Inn. It no longer exists, except in our memories.

It proved to be very comfy and clean. The hotel restaurant, of course, offered genuine Amish food. If fatty meats, butter-loaded potato dishes, heavy breads and family-style serving elbow-to-elbow at ten-person tables is considered cool, then we ate Amish. Additionally, throughout our week in Pennsylvania Dutch country, we found many other restaurants with wonderful, genuine Amish food and loaded up on it.

Your night-roaming travel4seniors.com editor captures a scene of the three-year-old super skyscraper, The Shard. The tallest building in the United Kingdom, it looms over the Thames River, Tower of London and other famed city landmarks.

Q: My spouse and I are both seasoned campers and backpackers. Since retirement a decade ago, we’ve roamed Europe and Asia, enjoying every moment. Unfortunately, now both are limited by recent age-related slow-downs. We want to hit the road again, but how to we find out if that road will be safe for us? TRL, Buffalo NY

A: Considering your enthusiasm for travel, you should plan future trips to adapt to any physical limitations. Of course, you won’t be able to climb Mount Everest nor Machu Picchu, but there are many adventures still out there.

First, check updates on websites that specialize in individual and/or group travel for the physically challenged. Try myhandicap.com, abilityfirst.org, travel.aarp, roadscholar.org, flyingwheelstravel.com, accomable.com and many others.