Traveling when you retire can be helpful

 Especially if you like to learn new things and travel around wherever you want to go.

Mostly before I was 37 I traveled the Western United States from Birth to around 37 years old and I went to Canada and Mexico. However, I never felt very safe in Mexico after a friend of mine was beaten up for parking in an area that wasn't marked as no parking. When he said there was nothing saying anything about not parking there they tied him to a jail cell and beat him up for confronting them at all.

After this, I didn't think too much of Mexico. Then one of the times I traveled down there when my wife was pregnant we were going to go camping at San Felipe at the top of the Gulf of Mexico and people were driving by both directions at night with no headlights on. So, likely these people were criminals who didn't want anyone to know what they were transporting and nothing else. Even my wife before i met her was with friends in a limousine down there and confronted by rebels with machine guns pointed at her and all the people in the car but luckily no one was shot or died that time. This was before I met my present wife.

So, I prefer going other places because I feel pretty safe in Canada for example, and have spent a lot of time in Victoria. Also, around 1983 I took my family as Far north as Jasper National Park in Canada then. We also went to Banff and Lake Louise as well. Then in 2022 my wife AND I  traveled to First Lake Tahoe and then crossed Nevada into Idaho and drove to Teton National Park. Then we stayed there for awhile and then went to Yellowstone National Park and stayed Old Faithful Lodge next to the Old Faithful Geyser for awhile. Then we went to Glacier National Park and then headed north to Calgary and then over to Banff and Lake Louise and then we went to Washington state to Seattle and Bainbridge Island before heading south to Portland (where my son and his family live and also Mt. Shasta and then home to the San Francisco Bay area in California.

The point is that traveling and experiencing new things helps to keep your mind active and constantly adapting to new things as you go places. So, we like to travel as much as possible but not so much that it becomes difficult or impossible to recover from. So, a 5 week trip like this might take a few weeks to recover from but we have many wonderful memories as well as another couple who met us in Teton National Park from Mt. Shasta and traveled as far north as Lake Louise with us too and Yellowstone and Glacier along the way to Banff and Lake Louise.

By God's Grace