http://www.seniorcitizen.travel Jim Becker’s Senior Travel blog is moving to a website of its own. Everyone around here is excited about the new site, and we want to be sure all our readers can find it easily.  The new URL is http://www.seniorcitizen.travel. All of the existing travel articles will remain here on SCJ; all of the [...]

Benefits of Last Minute Travel LMT (Last Minute Travel) is finding more and more seniors who are willing to take off in a minute’s notice for big savings on travel deals. With LMT your will find that you can book by phone and save big, including hotel deals with 30% savings.// Find your trip and [...]

Seniors, Do You Know of a Town Called Nashville? Well, Google found several for me. The US Census Bureau lists a total of 12 towns with the name Nashville.  Nashville, Iowa, not on the list, was only about ten miles from my hometown of Monmouth.  It was quite small and probably was not really even [...]

Seniors Rush to Old Gold Rush Town Weaverville, California made the list for Best Small Towns in a recent copy (09/10/2012) of Budget Travel magazine.  It’s small alright with a population of only 3,600 happy souls.  Sure you’ll find a saloon, a main street and some old hitching posts but the 138 year old Chinese [...]

Seniors Choose Culinary Tours Doesn’t a culinary tour sound like fun, seniors? A vacation that includes great food and a food adventure as well.  Right off the top I discovered an Italy Cooking Vacation.  Small group All-Inclusive Italian Cooking, Wine & Cultural Vacations offers you the magical experience of Italian culture like nothing else can. [...]

Senior Visitors Love Ste. Genevieve When senior citizens think of Colonial America, we generally think of the old parts of Boston,  lovely New England port towns such as Marblehead or Spanish colonial towns such as St. Augustine. America’s heartland has some colonial traces too. The best preserved and most distinct is the French colonial town [...]

Rye, a Flavor Seniors Crave Rye, NY has a certain “flavor” to its name. Located in Westchester County, New York, with a population around 15,000,  it was selected by Budget Travel as one of the Nicest Small Cities in the country.  So, that’s enough to set  jeb off on a journey to see if senior [...]

The City of The Crosses Las Cruces, New Mexico is one of the best kept secrets of the American Southwest.  Centuries ago, Spanish explorers brought their faith, culture, language and way of life to this land. Today, over 400 years later, the past is a living treasure alive in everything from the traditional architecture, to [...]

Tips For Smart Travel Traveling is hard enough with all the logistics, headaches and lately, rising fees, but you can be a smart senior traveler on planes, trains and automobiles – even hotels – with some of these insider travel tips. PLANES #1 Check Flight’s Occupancy The trick to knowing if it’s time to buy [...]

Monarch Butterfly Migration is Annual Trek Senior citizens are not the only travelers.  I have long been mystified by the annual Monarch butterfly migration to Mexico.  Have you ever seen them congregate in huge masses in the trees?  It’s that time of year again, so join me as we trace the 4,000-mile round trip made [...]