The Travel Adventure Show takes place in Los Angeles every year and when the dates were announced for 2019, I made sure to sign up. I wrote a post about last year’s show and included some of the travel tips I learned from speakers Rick Steves and Patricia Schultz. This time I listened to Samantha Brown, who's the host and executive producer of Places to Love on PBS. She … [Read more...]
Lake Louise: The Extreme Beauty of an Alpine Hike in Canada
My daughter, who is an expert travel planner, booked us to go on an Alpine Hike at Lake Louise during our visit to the Canadian Rockies. At first, I was nervous. Would I survive hiking with a millennial? Will I have a heart attack and die in paradise? Even though I walk 15,000 steps a day at home I was concerned. Hiking uphill is different than walking on the … [Read more...]
Travel Adventure Show LA: Review: Rick Steves
I love going to the Travel Adventure Show and was glad that it was at the Los Angeles Convention Center this year. It was so easy for me to get to it from the subway. If you aren’t familiar with the show, it’s a huge expo where you can visit the booths of hundreds of travel companies, listen to well-known travel experts, enjoy entertainment and food. (there were pages and pages … [Read more...]
10 Winter Travel Packing Tips and Advice for Baby Boomers
We've been on 3 European trips during the winter. We went to Spain in March, Poland and then a Christmas Market tour on the Danube from Budapest to Prague in Nov, Dec, and then Italy for 3 weeks, a cruise on the Mediterranean and London also in Nov, Dec. Being a Southern Californian gal from Los Angeles, I wasn't used to dealing with cold weather and had to find warm … [Read more...]
A Baby Boomer’s Guide to Travel Light and Nifty Over 50
One of my biggest passions is to travel and if I could, I’d do it all year long. But traveling is taxing for those of us over 50. We have to maneuver through crowded airports, squeeze ourselves into seats like sardines, and haul our luggage from planes into trains, buses, and automobiles. The actual “travel” part of traveling is what takes a toll on our heads, shoulders, knees, … [Read more...]
