Travel, Tech & Learning
The world worth exploring, the technology worth mastering, and the curiosity worth keeping. Practical guidance for the 55-and-better community who refuse to let their second chapter be smaller than their first.
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- Travel & cultural discovery
- Personal technology & devices
- Lifelong learning
- Digital tools & AI
- Adventure & exploration
Recent Friday Reads
The Policy You Buy and Hope Never to Read
Travel insurance is sold in nine seconds on a checkout page. Medicare mostly stops at the border, the benefit worth comparing first is medical evacuation — not cancellation — and two clocks that start the day you put down a deposit decide whether the policy is worth anything.
Twenty-Five Years of Carrying It
There is now a generation of adults who learned about September 11th the way we learned about Pearl Harbor — from a textbook. That changes our job. We stop being witnesses and become custodians. Three duties: tell it small, tell it whole, tell it forward.
Twenty-Five Years of Carrying It
There is now a generation of adults who learned about September 11th the way we learned about Pearl Harbor — from a textbook. That changes our job. We stop being witnesses and become custodians. Three duties: tell it small, tell it whole, tell it forward.
Where Americans Are Actually Moving Abroad After 55
The actual income numbers six countries want to see, and the two facts that follow every American passport abroad — Medicare doesn’t cover you overseas, and the IRS still wants its cut.
Fall Term: What to Take This Autumn, and Where It’s Free
Fall OLLI catalogs are open right now, and most close within weeks. Why one class beats a full schedule, what’s actually in these catalogs beyond art history, the one page that finds a program near you, and the follow-through habit that decides whether this becomes real.
The Password Hour: The One Afternoon That Fixes Your Entire Digital Life
The real vulnerability isn’t a weak password — it’s a repeated one. Why the free option is genuinely the right one, the master password you’ll actually remember, and the five minutes that let someone reach your accounts if you can’t.
The Best Three Weeks in Europe Start After Labor Day — and This Year There’s Paperwork
Airfare drops 30 to 50 percent after Labor Day and stays down through late October. The new border rules, where to go when you can go anywhere, and the Medicare gap that leaves you paying 100 percent abroad.
Beginner Again: The Case for Taking Up Something New at 65
That squirming discomfort of being bad at something new? It’s the feeling of your brain physically changing. Why brain-game apps are oversold, and what to take up this week.
Let AI Plan Your Next Trip: A Beginner’s Walkthrough for Travelers Over 55
The share of travelers over 50 using AI to plan trips doubled in a year. The first prompt to type, and the one honest catch: it invents hotels. AI drafts, you verify.
Free University After 55: How to Go Back to College for $0 to $65 a Year
In 46 of 50 states, a public university will waive your tuition once you pass a certain birthday. The senior tuition waiver almost nobody uses, audit versus credit, and the OLLI network.