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

For some retirees, buying a permanent cabin on the unique cruise ship, The World, would be at the top of their bucket list. Of course, to make it come true, the bucket would have to be filled with cash!

It’s called “the only private residential community-at-sea”, and the 165 privately-owned cabins on The World super yacht range from studios to grand suites, including private balconies. Although current information indicates full occupancy, residents are allowed to offer their property for sale. Prices may range from $600,000 for a studio on up to $13,500,000 for a suite. Homeowner dues start at $20,000 annually, along with ongoing expenses for the usual expenses of daily living.

Residents have onboard access to all the amenities of a luxury cruise ship or upscale resort. Included are a theater, six restaurants, deli, bars, pool, spa, beauty parlor and much more. It all goes with a life most of us can only hope to afford in one-week, once-a-year sailings.

Since the first scheduled cruise in 2002, The World has lived up to its name in visiting virtually every part of the planet. For example, the 2014 itinerary includes Spain, the Panama Canal, Caribbean Islands, New Zealand, New Guinea and many other Far East ports of call.

Total costs for living a life at sea? If you have to ask, as the nasty old saying goes, you can’t afford it. For more information, go to http://aboardtheworld.com

Instead of gasoline, they’ll fly on BS? It shouldn’t be too surprising, because we suspect the U.S. Congress is fueled by the same substance. All members and most other politicians around the world seem to soar above the rest of us while handing out the stuff endlessly.

Realistically, a recent UNESCO report claims aviation engineers are now working on creating a cost-saving fuel derived partially from cattle manure. So far, several experimental aircraft energy substances could include a mixture of the familiar barnyard deposit, body heat from on-board passengers and electric current.

Additionally, this conjures up the offensive ingredients in the sayings of greedy oil cartel sheiks and international fuel monopolies. It may also be the cattle waste words you’ll think of saying to your friendly neighborhood gas station owner as he keeps jacking up the prices.

With hotel room prices steep and getting higher, especially in the big tourist-trap cities, would you opt to share a room with another traveler?  The drastic idea wasn’t so unusual until just over a century or so ago, before hotels or motels existed. Then roadside inns didn’t rent rooms, just beds. The more fortunate guests got a bed with only two or three other snoozers in it.

A start-up online hotel room-sharing program called Easynest is now booking people willing to share at many hotels and resorts. Potential clients are required to fill out personal data, choices, schedules and other information. Then, matches are offered. So far, the service is totally free, but if the program evolves successfully, a fee is a certainty.

Cruise lines have offered share-your-cabin service for a long time, but this may be the first it's available for hotel rooms. For more information about the new website that identifies itself as "Airbnb for hotels and resorts”, go to www.easynest.com