Las Vegas and Reno attract retirees with glittering entertainment, posh hotels, overflowing buffets and flashing casinos. Of course, all of that isn’t to make seniors happy.

Strip it all away, and the purpose is to take your money. This isn’t a lecture about the evils of gambling, but just a simple warning to those of us who enjoy spending time in the Silver State.

Your roaming travel4seniors.com editor gets camera creative at Milano Porta Garibaldi, one of the world’s most beautiful train stations.

We seasoned citizens know what to do when the inevitable delay happens in airports. USA Today thinks we need advice when forced to spend hours in the world’s largest train station in NYC.

Your travel4seniors.com editor experienced the famed landmark, now more than a century old, as far back as World War 2. The 1940s were it’s glory years, because air travel was still in its infancy.  Millions of we now old vets saw Grand Central from troop trains on our way to and from wartime assignments throughout the world.

Today nearly a million people pass through the station daily. So, what would be the most important and convenient things to do when required to spend an hour or more in Grand Central? Most are obvious to the seasoned senior wanderer: relax, find a quiet spot to rest, read or smartphone and visit the shops and fantastic eateries. Fave: Grand Central Oyster Bar. 

If you feel you need the article’s sage advice, go to www.usatoday.com/story/travel/nation-now/2017/07/12/summerofhell-8-things-do-when-stuck-grand-central-terminal

Guest Writer MMcC, West Allis WI: Top singing stars have lauded it, starting with Jeanette MacDonald in the 1936 the title movie of the city’s name.

We all know Tony Bennett lost his heart there in his 1962 classic recording. Also singing the praises of San Francisco were Judy Garland, Cab Calloway, Merle Haggard, Otis Redding, Frank Sinatra, The Mowgli’s and many, many others.

My first visit was in 1944, just out of Navy boot camp and on my way to troop transport duty in the Pacific during World War 2. While waiting assignment, I bunked at the Navy base on Treasure Island. It’s a little spit of land under the Bay Bridge halfway between Oakland and San Francisco. It’s now a posh condo development.

Many travel gurus list the following as the ten most attractive destinations senior wanderers should experience while wandering in the beautiful City by the Bay: 1.