Dear Ageless Traveler, Several years ago, on a Danube cruise with Theatrical Adventures at Sea, I met a woman whose husband had passed away five years earlier. She told me this was the first time she had the "guts," her word, to travel by herself. It wasn't a revelation to me. My own mother spent much of her life alone and never traveled until group tours began welcoming solo women travelers. What a difference a decade makes. Today, solo travel is all the rage, and it doesn't necessarily mean...

Dear Ageless Traveler, I am about to take a six-week trip, and it's never easy to plan. But after visiting 140 countries, I do have some hints and tips. I also have a roster of places I've found worth the effort of long-term travel. In an earlier newsletter, I reported on how we Ageless Travelers are taking Gap Years, where we travel for months at a time. My trip is taking me to the Galápagos with GoGalapagos, the Ecuadorian Amazon, and barging through the Champagne Valley in France with...

Dear Ageless Traveler, I know, I know. Between pickle ball, the book club, volunteering and sitting on the Board of your HOA, you don’t have time to plan your next trip. Funny how in the age of information, planning is getting harder and more time-consuming what with chats with AI, over choice, and airline headaches, you may as well stay home…not on my watch! As you will find in one of my favorite books, Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit, “The things we want are transformative,...

Dear Ageless Traveler, Yesterday I felt fantastic. Today? I am feeling a bit under the weather. Honestly, if I had to hop on a plane this afternoon, it would be a drag. Thankfully, that doesn't happen to me very often. I sat down and really reflected on why I'm feeling drained. The truth is, I’ve been so incredibly busy getting ready to travel for the next two months that I completely let my guard down. I failed to do my usual exercises, missed taking my supplements, and let my nutrition...