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Senior Strolls: Five Memorable City Hikes |
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When traveling to far-off urban centers, we always plan walking times. For at least an hour or two a day, we forget taxis, rickshaws, pedicabs, buses, trains and planes. We just enjoy the stroll, along with surrounding city sights and sounds.
For health-minded senior travelers, we recommend hitting the pavement, path or trail. Walking helps digest food and control weight, as well as fight aches and other ailments. Hiking also relieves mental, as well as physical stress.
Here’s a rambling sampling of where we’ve taken meaningful strolls. Choose to do it on your own, or check with your hotel desk about local guided walking tours.
1. The Brooklyn Bridge, NYNY: Frank Sinatra stood on the iconic span in the 1947 movie, “It Happened In Brooklyn”. As a returning WW2 GI, he sang:
“You'll miss her most when you roam,
'Cause you'll think of her,
And think of home;
The good old Brooklyn Bridge.”
One route is to hike the 6,100 feet length from the bridge entrance in Lower Manhattan across to Brooklyn.
Vendors and benches near the bridge’s East River walkways relieve serious hiking with rests and refreshments. Views of the Statue of Liberty, cruise ships, tankers, city skylines and other sights are spectacular. www.everytrail.com/guide/brooklyn-bridge-walk-new-york-city
2. London Bridge, Lake Havasu AZ: Actually, the span over the River Thames we hiked several times in England is the Tower Bridge. The original 2,000-year-old London Bridge was taken down (not falling down) stone by stone, shipped to Lake Havasu, Arizona, in 1971, and reassembled to be a tourist attraction. It provides an interesting 900-foot stroll with nearby stops and shops. www.pr.state.az.us/Parks/LAHA
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Cabazon CA: Morongo’s Mariachi Mondays! |
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If you’re staying at the Morongo Casino Resort or just passing by on Mondays, and you like genuine Mexican food, be sure to stop in. The imposing contemporary structure rises high above the desert and overlooks busy Highway I-10 just 17 miles west of Palm Springs, 90 miles east of Los Angeles and 109 miles north of San Diego.
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Manhattan Tourists: No Need To Pay To See The Lady |
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Adding a word to Frank Sinatra’s lyrics: New York, New York, it’s a helluva (costly) town! Many seniors wandering in Manhattan for the first time in decades are understandably shocked by the sky-high hotel, restaurant, taxi and other prices. Take heart! Some savings can happen if you plan visits by searching for on-line bargains and other deals.
For example, many city museums have n0-charge days. Some quality entertainment events in Central Park, including the famed Shakespeare in the Park series, are free. Kiosks on Broadway sell half-price theater tickets on performance days.
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Half Moon Bay CA: Enjoying Sky, Sand & Ocean |
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Your reclining travel4seniors.com editor’s camera peeks out from the sun deck of the beautiful Ritz-Carlton Resort, 1 Miramontes Point Rd., Half Moon Bay CA 94019, www.ritzcarlton.com/...HalfMoonBay
On the beautiful Northern California coast just 20 minutes from San Francisco International Airport, the classical resort sits majestically on a cliff top overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Just below is the Ritz-Carlton’s almost endless private beachfront where guests can sun, swim, surf, snorkel, picnic and hike along the brilliant white sand.
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Senior Travelers: Avoid Phony Free Cruise Scams |
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Now that we seasoned wanderers twitter and tweet day and night on our little light boxes, we’ve become even more attractive targets for crooks. For example, we keep getting phone and/or email messages: Congratulations! You’ve won a free cruise!
When you see or hear the word congratulations on a promo, chances are at least 110% it’s a scam. Examples of rip-off travel song-and-dance routines aimed at seniors: fill out forms requiring financial and other personal information, participate in opinion polls and/or attend live sales pitch meetings.
Don’t reveal your financial situation for any of those phony gimmicks. And never send advance money as deposits or reservations, such as promises to hold the best cruise cabin for you. When asked to provide your Social Security, bank or credit card ID numbers, run away as fast as you can from any so-called free cruise or other travel offer.
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