So what is an ELDERHOSTEL?
A cure for the Elder Couch Potato.
ELDERHOSTEL INC is a none profit organization located in Boston, Massachusetts, who sponsor worldwide learning adventures for those who have mellowed into fine wine. It is an opportunity to increase the wisdom that accumulates with the passing seasons, and keep the juices of the mind flowing, at very reasonable prices, one of the perks of passing fifty- five.
Want to fool around with water colors? You can do that in Texas and Oregon. How about the history of the Civil War? Try Illinois and Georgia. Pottery your interest? North Carlina and Arizona.
Need something more adventurous, say dog sledding, snowshoe hiking, and igloo building? Two ladies did that in Banff, Alberta, Canada, but, of course, they were only 62 and 78 years old. There's sailing out of Boston and New York, a tall ship on the West Coast, bike riding in France and England, and studies aboard barges in the low countries. There's programs on all the continents and in most countries.
I mentioned reasonable. One man I met on an ELDERHOSTEL wanted to go visit Cheyenne, Wyoming, but when he found out his one week hotel stay would cost him over a thousand dollars, he looked up Wyoming in the ELDERHOSTEL catalogue and signed up for Wyoming's Dance Traditions for $385, with all his meals and learning fun and instant new friends thrown in to boot.
For $395 each, my wife and I stayed at a downtown hotel in Baltimore, including meals and local transportation, and learned all we wanted to know about cooking and were afraid to ask. If you would like to know more about how that experience translated into a work of fiction, click on Killing Thyme button below.
If you would like to know more about ELDERHOSTEL, check out the links below.
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