Peter J. Stanley has traveled to Israel, the San Juan islands off the coast of Washington state and Maryland's Eastern Shore with Elderhostel. The quality, variety and organization of the educational ...

Start planning your spring or summer Elderhostel trip soon. The 2005 catalog of international trips is out, and some slots are already filled. Elderhostel remains one of the top travel choices for ...

So you've escaped middle age and are ready for the long calm of retirement. What next? If you spend too much time rocking on the front porch, will your brain droop into autopilot? One antidote for ...

The tag line for Elderhostel(r) is "Adventures in Lifelong Learning," and that's a pretty big hint about the primary difference between this organization for travelers 55 years of age and older and ...

Riverland Community College, Elderhostel and the Albert Lea Convention and Visitor's Bureau are offering a program for people 55 and older. Participants from as far away as California and New Jersey ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The history of Southwest Montana is rich and vivid, but the many boom towns that were once ...

A hike in the Canadian Rockies is an example of the excursions offered by Road Scholar, an education-promoting travel service once called Elderhostel. Eileen Knesper Road Scholar She is 84 and, much ...

“It is important for people of my generation to participate. … You sit, you mold. It’s unhealthy.”— Barry Adler More than 50 seniors have come from all over the country to take part in the Elderhostel ...

Although it widely publicized and explained its change of name several years ago, when it went from Elderhostel to Road Scholar, the resulting organization is not always fully understood by the people ...

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Robert Williams, 12, wasn't worried about flying for the first time or visiting a big city. He was only concerned that his manners wouldn't be up to his grandmother's standards. Subscribe to read this ...