Remember the lyrics of old songs about falling? They included falling for you, I fall in love too easily and falling in love with love. Also, tripping the light fantastic.

However, now in your sunset years, falling has a much more serious meaning. For senior travelers, accidents aboard ship, in airports, on ramps, in bathtubs, wet city streets and many other potentially dangerous situations are always possible.

Before every journey away from home, consult with your family physician. If a cane or walker is suggested, take it along. Also, be sure to have a companion with you at all times. Wear sensible shoes, be extra careful as you roam, and make sure the word trip only applies to your enjoyable and safe journey.

Get into the streets and into airports to block traffic, the activists shout. Let’s punish the president for trying to ban illegal immigration. For your elderly travel4seniors.com editor, the current scenario brings back disturbing childhood memories from the 1930s.

When I was a kid, city streetcar employees were paid less than a dollar an hour. As labor movements evolved, the workers often attempted to negotiate for more living wages. The union tactics then were to shut down the city transportation system until the bosses complied. Of course, the disruption prevented ordinary citizens from getting to their daily jobs and kids couldn’t attend school.

That put heavy social and political pressure on the bosses. It worked, and the strikes were successful then in raising minimum hourly pay a nickel or a dime. Although today’s disruption of travel is on a much larger scale, and more political than economic, the tactics are the same.

If you have air and city travel plans during this unfortunate crisis, be sure to keep an hour-by-hour check on the latest info, and plan accordingly. As with many deliberate social and political unrest actions, the most physical dangers and inconveniences will hurt the innocent traveler.

According to a recent London’s Daily Telegraph report, total destruction of the Earth is getting closer. Nutcase Iran and North Korea are developing bigger atomic weapons, terrorism is growing and air pollution gets denser. British scientists predict we’re sliding ever closer to the end of all life on the planet.

So, what should senior wanderers do about it? Schlump on the couch and watch endless reruns of the Lucy show until it hits? Dig a basement shelter, then stock up on Hershey bars, Schlitz Blue Ribbon beer and hunker down? Of course not!

Get get your senior butt off that couch and travel the world while it’s still here. Have you ever wanted to hike the Great Wall of China, climb Machu Picchu, surf in Malibu and ride a gondola in Venice? Also, speaking about time getting short, you ain’t gettin’ any younger! So pack your bags, go out and do it all!

No more photo albums to record your adventures. Today it’s all electronic, a photo and tweet travel blog to record of your journey. If you’re a reader, you can take some travel points from famous wanderers.

Think of Charles Darwin, Mark Twain, Samuel Pepys, Alexis de Tocqueville and Saint Paul. Your travel story may not become famous literature, but consider benefits you'll get by adding interesting notes to it every day: