Travel with a Challenge
Discover the new world of cruise and land vacations for mature travelers, their families and friends!
While showcasing both well-established and freshly-minted alternative travel opportunities throughout the world, this website and its Web magazine promise its readers practical advice and plenty of nuts-and-bolts information to encourage active, educational, value-added vacationing suitable for men and women over 50. The one thing you won’t find is an excuse to stay home!
Feature Articles in our September – October 2020 issue
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The Language of African Elephants
Learn how researchers are identifying dozens of ways that African elephants communicate up close and over vast distances. Then pick an educational safari from our carefully researched list to observe for yourself these fascinating giants in several countries on the African continent.
Cabin Crew Tales From 1,001 Flights
A book, Airborne: Tales From A Thousand And One Flights, offers a collection of humorous, touching anecdotes from six decades of travel shared by Finnair’s cabin crews. With both contemporary and historic tales reflecting earlier days of passenger travel, our article shares excerpts that will give readers a taste of the challenges and delights of working life in the skies.
Discover Portugal’s Prolific Ice Age Art
In an under-visited area of northeastern Portugal rests what has been identified as “the biggest open-air site of Paleolithic rock art in Europe, if not the world.” Join Alison Gardner as she explores this precious collection of Ice Age engravings, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1998 and now selectively accessible to the public.
Meaningful Travel Helps Heal and Reveal
Spiritual guide and healer, Ronda LaRue, shares her thoughts on the importance of meaningful travel as a valuable, creative tool in helping people take steps to recover from personal challenges and hard times in their lives. Such travel can also point each of us toward a life of awakened purpose, peace and passion.
How to Introduce Children to Travel
Here is a creative, customized gift for traveling grandparents to engage 3- to 12-year-old children in learning about the world, one country at a time! Using the letters of your selected child’s name, My Very Own World Adventure features countries representing each letter with charming illustrations that highlight different cultures in a colorful, thoughtful way.
Lipizzaner Horses Welcome Visitors to their Estate
Celebrating 440 years of history in 2020, visit the original breeding and training estate in Slovenia for the dazzling white horses with dancing feet. Once the exclusive preserve of kings and nobles, this beautiful estate now welcomes vacationers for shows, tours, horseback riding and overnight stays at a hotel on site.
Be sure to visit the magazine’s entire Travel Article Library and the handy Theme Pages to browse our growing collection of richly-illustrated features. Finally, our innovative Travel Advertiser Directory is a treat not to miss. Click here to view our Feature Link of the Month.
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