Category: Senior Travel

• How the State Department Can Help You Abroad

  Click here to read excerpts of Emily Brennan’s interview with Brenda S. Spague, the State Department’s deputy assistant secretary for passport services concerning tips on how this governmental entity can help you if something goes wrong during your trip abroad. Her advice includes: 1) What to do if you’re traveling somewhere off the tourism grid…

  kimsswidler

  February 5, 2013

  boomer travel, lost passport, Senior Travel, state department, Tips, Travel Health

• Getting My Travel Groove Back in Aruba

  Months ago, I wrote about my back injury and how it prevented me from writing about what would have been some wonderful travel experiences including a trip to Kenya at the Tribe Hotel and a series of safaris organized by Anastasia’s Africa. Even worse, I missed an opportunity to meet Neil Armstrong before he died.…

  kimsswidler

  December 26, 2012

  Aruba, Aruba Marriott, Caribbean travel, Foodie Finds, Gay Travel, General, Senior Travel, Stories, Tribe Hotel, Wedding destination

• Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello:Dark side of his views towards slavery

  Click here to check out a fascinating new Smithsonian article about Thomas Jefferson’s plantation, Monticello, and the new information that challenges the long held perception that he had been a benevolent slaveholder. The piece indicates that, around 1792, Jefferson worked to make a 4 percent profit every year on the birth of the black children…

  kimsswidler

  September 24, 2012

  Monticello, Senior Travel, Stories, Thomas Jefferson, Travel History

• NYC: Look Both Ways!

  As we all know, I love traveling to New York City. So many visitors are concerned about safety from crime in this big city, but one hazard that less people mention is the potential of getting hit while crossing a street. I always look to see if a speeding taxi is ready to jump a…

  kimsswidler

  September 22, 2012

  General, New York, New York City, New York Travel, NYC & Company, Senior Travel, Stories, Travel History, Travel safety

• US Marines vs Roman Centurians-who do you think would win?

  Ever wonder how our troops would fare if they traveled back in time to fight Rome’s Centurions? Click here to check out the interesting article that I came across in Popular Mechanic.com. Allison Sheppard writes that James Erwin, a writer of software manuals, took a break from his job to speculate as to whether a…

  kimsswidler

  July 9, 2012

  Historical Travel, Military history, Roman history, Senior Travel, Stories, time travel

• Met’s new costume exhibit– Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations

  How many of us waited in one of those amazingly long lines to view Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, last year’s blockbuster Costume Institute exhibition at NYC’s Metropolitan Museum of Art? Well, it’s that time of year again when the Met launches yet another fabulous exhibit to coincide with its famous celebrity Costume Gala. And this…

  kimsswidler

  May 10, 2012

  Costume Exhibit, General, I Love New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum travel, New York, New York City, New York Travel, Prada, Senior Travel, Stories

• Top of This Year’s Bucket List-Meeting Robert Ballard, Discoverer of the Titanic

  If you’ve read my posts, you know that I have a great love for exploration, and that this has been an amazing year for fulfilling many of the goals on my bucket list. I’ve written about many adventures including going behind the scenes of  the Monterrey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), meeting famous world explorer…

  kimsswidler

  December 29, 2011

  Adventure travel, General, National Geographic, Robert Ballard, Sea Exploration, Senior Travel, Stories, Washington D.C.

• CSI: The Experience! at the Discovery Center

  For years, CSI has been one of the most popular dramas on television so I was happy to be invited to take a look at CSI: The Experience! at the Discovery Center in New York City’s Times Square. This hands-on exhibit lets you play the role of a crime scene detective. Once my friend and…

  kimsswidler

  December 19, 2011

  General, I Love New York, New York City, New York Travel, Senior Travel, Stories

• Sea Stories at NYC’s Explorers Club-November 19, 2011

  The Explorers Club in NYC will be hosting “Sea Stories” a day long series of seminars that will be focused on exploration, conservation, scuba diving, shipwrecks, nautical history and marine life. This will be a great opportunity for those who are interested in the ocean to interact. Tickets will NOT be sold at door. When:…

  kimsswidler

  November 15, 2011

  I Love New York, New York City, New York Travel, Senior Travel

• Sailing aboard the Half Moon

    On our way aboard the Half Moon-photo by TU/Will Waldron   If you’ve read enough of my posts, you probably know by now that I have a great interest in sea exploration and that, wherever I’ve traveled, my experiences have usually been fueled by one major factor- I love to learn. I’ve had quite…

  kimsswidler

  November 7, 2011

  General, Historical Travel, Hudson River, Hudson Valley Region, I Love New York, New York Travel, Senior Travel, Stories