We ‘baby boomers’ are beginning to reap the benefit of still being fit, able and solvent after completing the expected quota of working years.
We have always enjoyed travelling but were constrained for most of our life by money, time, children, a fear of flying, hatred of being on water, severe motion sickness, agoraphobia and claustrophobia. Not really, it’s only the first three that actually impeded our adventures.
This account is written jointly for the most part, but on occasions an individual opinion or experience will be expressed. Where this is the case, it will be clearly indicated.
In places, the contents of e-mails sent to family have been used to express feelings being experienced at the time.
This is something which our parents did not enjoy and our generation is entering new territory with our aspirations and abilities, physically, mentally and financially.
Both the business world and society in general has been very slow to wake up to the fact that we ‘oldies’ are now a force to be reckoned with.
However, we do still have a tendency to ramble on a bit so I’ll get to the point, or ‘cut to the chase’ as the saying goes.
We are by no means widely travelled compared with many of the people we meet on our travels but it was suggested by family members that others may be interested in some of the tales that we recount to them when we return from our trips. (You will note that we retired folk have ‘trips’ as there is nothing for us to have a ‘holiday’ from).
Fair to middling pensions
Free of all pretensions
Love to travel wide and far
And appreciate how lucky we are
