Senior Traveler: Top 10 Free Places to Enjoy Doing Absolutely Nothing

1. The Grand Canyon, Arizona: Look on with pure pleasure as the setting sun unleashes its colorful palette of brilliant lights and shadows on the canyon’s mighty walls. 2. Central Park in New York City: Find a slice of quiet Americana amid the skyscrapers and bustling streets. Share a swath of green surrounded by man-made canyons, and enjoy it with joggers, kids, lovers, retirees, gang-bangers and homeless wanderers . 3. Muscle Beach, Santa Monica, California: Who knows? That guy flexing his abs next to you on the sand may someday become the Governator of Caleefornia. Stroll along the shore, sink your toes in the warm surf and feed the seagulls. 4. Paris, France: Linger at a sunny sidewalk cafe on le Champs de Elysee. Sip an aperatif as fashionablly dressed people strut by, and watch the taxicabs dash noisily up and down the street toward le Arc de Triomphe. 5. Acapulco, Mexico: Try a tequila punch while you see the divers soar gracefully from the high rocks into the blue Gulf of Mexico waters a hundred feet below. 6. Waikiki Beach, Hawaii: Watch the early morning surfers as they challenge the waves, gleaming bodies lit by the rising sun while they speed expertly toward shore in a cloud of white-topped waves. 7. Mann’s Theater, Hollywood, California: Step into the concrete shoe impressions of Gary Cooper, Douglas Fairbanks, Marilyn Monroe and other stars of yesteryear. Mingle with costumed street people who seek hand-outs from tourists to pose for their ever-present cameras. Have your photo taken with a fake Elvis, a shabby Chaplin or a would-be Batman. 8. Hyde Park, London, England: On a nice warm Sunday afternoon, join the crowds as speakers get up on their virtual or real soapboxes and loudly offer to solve all the political, social and economic problems of the world. 9. Las Vegas, Nevada: Marvel at the Fremont Street Experience, a huge, five-block canopy of brilliantly animated light and sound displays towering 80 feet above thousands of awed onlookers. 10. Grant Avenue, San Francisco, California: Get some firecrackers and join the parade led by Gum Lung, at more than 230 feet, the longest dragon ever to march through the city’s famed Chinatown.