No more ‘I wish I’d done that’
Published on: Thursday 27 March 2014
A generation ago, Americansâ idea of retirement travel might have involved a Caribbean cruise, a casino vacation or a European shopping trip. It would not have typically included trekking in the Himalayas, clearing invasive weeds on a volcanic island, canoeing through crocodile-infested waters in Nepal or, at the extreme end, selling the house to fund years of travel. But little is typical among todayâs retirees, who increasingly are leaping into more adventurous activities than their