If you happen to be in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area and want to drive a real combat tank, here’s your chance. It could be your first experience, or a way to relive your earlier moments aboard one of those massive vintage vehicles.

Are you a grizzled vet whose tanker time goes way back to Bastogne, Naha, Inchon, Da Nang or downtown Baghdad? Take your ride back into history in Kasota, Minnesota. The town is located about 70 miles southwest of the Twin Cities’ airport.

The facility there is called Drive a Tank, Inc., and it features armored vehicles and propelled artillery, including Russian, British, American and other still-chugging tank examples. Rates go from $310 up to $2,499, depending on how much time you need to ride your massive machine and how much destruction you choose to do.

For more information, go to http://www.driveatank.com/

If traveling to Greece is on your senior-gotta-see bucket list, you may want to schedule a stop on the island of Ikaria. According to legend, it may contain the secret of long life. If you learn about it and follow the laid-back lifestyle, maybe you won’t live as long as old Methuselah did, but you could add another decade or two to your life.

Ikaria is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea, named for the unfortunate lad, Icarus. He was the world’s first solo flyer, but got too close to the sun and ended up in the ocean. While it has not been touted as the ideal vacation spot, the stories of the island and its uniquely healthy, long-living residents have been published in various magazines and seen on TV reports.

The statistics tell the story that the average age span is in the upper 80s, with a third of the residents making it to age 90. Heart disease, elderly dimentia and diabetes are as fewer as one-half the rates in the United States. Why is this little island so unique in longevity?

Of course, much of it is that the residents live very tranquil, small-town lives, spending most of their time working and walking outdoors. They eat locally-caught, fresh fish as the only non-vegetable part of their diets, along with local goat’s milk.

There are scheduled flights and ferries from the Greek capital of Athens, about 140 miles away. The tourist business on Ikaria is very low key, but there are hotels, restaurants and other facilities for visitors. An example of the laid-back attitudes on Ikaria is the annual July chess tournament. While elsewhere in the world, athletes are jumping and running, Ikarian competitors are slowly contemplating their next move. For more information, go to www.island-ikaria.com

Manhattan can be a very expensive place for senior visitors. Hotels, restaurants, entertainment and shopping all take big chunks out of your travel budget. However, one absolutely free fun attraction offers the thrill of one of the world's most beautiful 30-minute sightseeing rides. It’s the no-charge Staten Island Ferry.

Board at sunset, when you may see Lady Liberty beautifully silhouetted against a pink-and-orange sky. You'll also get panoramic views of the glittering Big Apple’s downtown, Brooklyn and Jersey City. The Staten Island Ferry is at Whitehall Terminal, Manhattan, 4 South Street, New York NY 10301. For schedules and other information, go to www.siferry.com

Are you following all the fuss about accused spy Edward Snowden running all over the world looking for a place to hide from Uncle Sam? If so, consider getting more familiar with the espionage business on your next visit to the nation’s capital city.

The current attraction at the International Spy Museum,“Spy in the City”, is an interactive adventure. It’s touted as put together by former spies who now serve as consultants to the museum. Kids love it, because it involves participating in simulated assignments, such as catching a dastardly secret agent attempting to peddle secrets to foreign spies. Poor Snowden! He can’t get a break anywhere.

The museum is at 800 F St NW, Washington, DC 20004. Tickets for adults are $20, seniors/cops/military are $16, kids age 7 to all are $15, and age 6 and under can sneak in for free. For more information, hours and tickets, go to www.spymuseum.org.