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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Who said you can't teach an old dog new tricks? Elderhostel is the world's largest education and travel organization for people age 55 and older. It provides older people with the opportunity to ...

Trees For Tomorrow, the natural resource specialty school located in Eagle River, will be hosting an Elderhostel program for canoeing enthusiasts the week of July 24-30. Canoeing Wisconsin's ...

KALAMAZOO-- The Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival may be among Elderhostel's newer offerings, but according to some third-time returnees, it's among the best. Three-time participants ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: The author was a member of a reporting team from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln School of Journalism that visited Kearney last week. MINDEN - Participants began arriving at the wood ...

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 ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Vocalists who are at least 55 years old can register to fine-tune their talent at the Elderhostel Choral Music Workshop June 18-23 at Purdue University. A new companion course ...