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Active Retirees Seek Adventure Travel - Kipllinger
The key for adventurous older travelers is to decide what "adventure" really means to them before booking an adventure tour.
Nance Hikes loves to travel, but you won’t catch her snapping selfies in front of the Eiffel Tower. She’s drawn to more exotic destinations. In recent years, Hikes, 70, watched chimpanzees in Tanzania’s Gombe National Park, tracked polar bears in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, and got up close and personal with penguins in the Falkland Islands. She has explored Patagonia and visited Bhutan—three times. Next stop: Namibia.
“I think my whole life has been adventure travel,” says Hikes, who followed up her first jaunt overseas—a college trip to Kenya in the 1970s—with a stint in the Peace Corps in Colombia. These days, whenever she wanders far from her Berea, Ohio, home, she’s still looking for intimate, authentic experiences—the more adventurous, the better. “I’m not somebody who likes to go on a bus trip,” she says.
The key for adventurous older travelers is to decide what "adventure" really means to them before booking an adventure tour.
Nance Hikes loves to travel, but you won’t catch her snapping selfies in front of the Eiffel Tower. She’s drawn to more exotic destinations. In recent years, Hikes, 70, watched chimpanzees in Tanzania’s Gombe National Park, tracked polar bears in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, and got up close and personal with penguins in the Falkland Islands. She has explored Patagonia and visited Bhutan—three times. Next stop: Namibia.
“I think my whole life has been adventure travel,” says Hikes, who followed up her first jaunt overseas—a college trip to Kenya in the 1970s—with a stint in the Peace Corps in Colombia. These days, whenever she wanders far from her Berea, Ohio, home, she’s still looking for intimate, authentic experiences—the more adventurous, the better. “I’m not somebody who likes to go on a bus trip,” she says.