I was sixty three years old, a semi retired architect living on limited income. I was divorced, my two children had University Degrees and were on their own. I was faced with a question: How was I going to spend the rest of my life?

I wanted some adventure so I decided to take a three month trip to Europe . Traveling alone I visited … Italy … Greece … and … Switzerland. During those three months I had some of the most thrilling times of my life. As  a  result  of that trip I fell in love with low cost travel and photography. I continued  to  be semi-retired,  working  as  an  Architect  for about 4 or 5 months  a  year.  The  rest  of the time I was free to take a yearly foreign trip and also make exploratory trips throughout The United States, Canada and Mexico.

As a person approaches retirement they have an opportunity to make the last years of their life the best and most exciting years of their life. Travel opened me up to a whole new world, because of travel the years after age sixty-five were among the best years of my life.

I learned the wisdom of the following 3rd century quote by St Augustine: