Over 50, Outdoors

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    Reminder: many, many people aren’t ready for retirement

    Reminder: many, many people aren’t ready for retirement

      Retirement planning is easy. You just need to know what food and lodging will cost over the coming decades, your age at death, your partner’s age at death, the return on the money you save, the reliability of Social Security and how sick you’ll be along the way. Books have been written about how...
    Parks without the traffic

    Parks without the traffic

                  Here’s a stunning statistical head-to-head: the population of the United States is 327 million; the number of visitors to America’s National Parks in 2018 was 318 million. In other words, statistically speaking, every able-bodied American…and some on crutches…took in a national park last year. Blame the hordes of...
    Your adventure went too far

    Your adventure went too far

    Bicycling.com—an entertaining and informative web site—has an article about Al Newman, a hard-driving, semi-retired, 73-year-old entrepreneur who just rode his bike around Antarctica and thereby completed his quest to cycle on all seven continents. Reaction one:  Whoa. Atta boy. Reaction two: I wish the article had been a little less evasive about how long he...