Thinking Big About Travel

“We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar…”(Angela Davis)  

What future travels that you desire linger beyond your grasp right now? 

My wife Ruth and I exist as a traveling team, well schooled for completing our vacations on our own as much as possible. For since the mid 1970s, our track record of self guided accomplishment includes numerous air, land and water journeys encompassing six continents along with extended  roadtrip adventures throughout the United States in all fifty states.Yet there’s been “trying” times when our overseas adventures, in particular, have been restricted by major life events such as the recurrent COVID crisis or immediate family health issues that pop up with little warning. Now seems to be one of those occasions.

Nonetheless, while our travel plans currently shrink as to time and distance, the global bucket list accumulates newly sought places for the future when the time’s right to visit. Know then at this point of our lives, the main emphasis lies with matching a much desired activity of lower physical exertion with the right place to experience it. That reality means we might need to reconsider our consistent avoidance of commercially run tours. For it seems prudent that as travel savvy seniors, we now need to “weigh in” more on whether such packaged offerings might offer some advantages for us concerning cost, health, time, and effort  with regard to future destinations we’re most interested in visiting.

So join me as I “think big”again about our future travels. First, examine below five photo motivations that hint at my prioritized site selection list for such future world roamings. In the caption space following each photo, I then reveal these activity desired destinations of mine followed by privately organized tour offerings to feasibly market interest in why we should visit each of these places.