65 Things to Do When You Retire: Travel

65 Things to Do When You Retire: Travel offers practical, inspiring advice about how to have the time of your life, whether traveling with a group, with a spouse or partner, or on your own. More than 65 intrepid writers and travel experts, including Andrew McCarthy, Elizabeth Berg, George M. Taber, and Lynne Martin, reveal their own personal adventures and describe glorious getaways for retirees, including such exciting travel opportunities as international house-sitting, going to Italy for a writing workshop, wine tourism, volunteering to help communities in developing countries, doing archaeological digs, taking a retirement ‘gap year’ and chucking it all to see the world. These fun and illuminating essays reveal the best places for retirees to visit– or relocate– and show how to plan for your ‘great escapes’ without breaking the bank. This book is a follow-up to the successful 65 Things to Do When You Retire, which was recently hailed by The Wall Street Journal as ‘[one] of the year’s best guides to later life…Reading the essays in Mark Evan Chimsky’s 65 Things to Do When You Retire is like having your own brainstorming session with 65 highly knowledgeable men and women of a certain age and many different walks of life. The collection is full of candor, humor and wisdom.’ Note: Thanks to the generosity of the contributing authors, all of whom provided essays on a pro-bono basis, the royalties generated from the sale of 65 Things to Do When You Retire: Travel will be donated to nonprofit organizations dedicated to preventing and curing cancer.