Category: Health and Lifestyle
Adjusting To Retirement
I will turn 70 next month. I have been semi-retired for five years and fully retired from my last full-time employer for three years. I find a number of my close friends, who elected to keep working after age 65, are now shifting to full or partial retirement at age 70 and I thought I…
Scandinavia Trip Mixed Cities & Scenic Fjords
My wife and I traveled to Scandinavia in late August 2019. The trip combined visits to Copenhagen, Oslo, Bergen and Norwegian fjords. We flew direct from Washington, Dulles to Copenhagen, where we spend five days. We took an overnight ferry from Copenhagen to Oslo, where we spent four days. We used trains and ferries to…
Trip To Israel Was Great Family Experience
In June 2019 my wife, son, daughter-in-law and I vacationed for 10 days in Israel. My wife, son and I had last been to Israel 20 years ago and my daughter-in-law had never previously visited. We flew from Washington’s Dulles airport to Israel via Frankfurt and had a direct return flight from Israel to Washington.…
Customized Tour of Northern Italy Was Great Experience
My wife and I spent nearly three weeks touring northern Italy in September and early October 2018. As was the case with several of our recent vacations, we used a travel agent working with a in-country tour operator to design a customized tour for the two of us rather than joining a group. The…
History, Nature, Art & Good Food In The Hudson River Valley
In the second week of July my wife and I spent 5 days on vacation in the Hudson River Valley. It is a place several friends and family members have visited and recommended and it is reachable from our home in Baltimore in a 4 – 5 hour drive. Our primary interest was…
Costa Rica – Great Vacation For Active Travelers & Retirement Option for Many
My wife and I visited Costa Rica from January 6 – 15, 2018. It is a remarkable country both politically and naturally. A stable democracy surrounded by countries that have gone through political upheaval, dictatorship and civil war, Costa Rica abolished its army in 1948 and put the money into education and healthcare.…
Portugal – Europe’s California With Castles
My wife and I spent two weeks in Portugal on a self-guided road trip for which we had https://www.toursforyou.pt/ arrange our hotels and rental car, suggest sites we might visit and arrange select guided tours, wine tastings and a boat ride along the way. I call Portugal, Europe’s California because it is west coat, has fine…
Working Part-Time Post-Retirement Age May Be Good For Your Health
On the page “What Is Retirement” (see link above on the banner of this blog) I propose a new definition for retirement as “The period of one’s life when one shifts from working primarily for the means of earning income to working primarily for the satisfaction of producing a purpose or result while devoting additional…
Machu Picchu & Peru Exceeded Expectations
It has been almost two years since I wrote about a vacation. In the interim we have traveled to the Pacific Northwest, visited Hilton Head twice and done a Midwest Road Trip that took us to Pittsburgh, Chicago, Lake Michigan, Detroit and Niagara On The Lake Ontario for the Shaw Festival. While each of these…
To Stay or Move – Adapting An Existing Home vs. Moving To Seniors Housing
On Monday June 6, 2016, The “Ask Encore” column by Glenn Ruffenach in the Wall Street Journal responded to a question from a reader about “what features, at a minimum, should be added to our current home or incorporated in a new home so that we can stay in our home as we get older.” …