Road Scholar is the nation’s largest not-for-profit educational travel organization for adults – a true university of the world. To request a mailed catalog, please call (800) 454-5768. To explore Road Scholar’s 1,000+ program offerings, please visit. So far, more than 52,000 participants have enrolled in programs for 2022: 26,700 in North America programs, 16,900 in international and 4,500 in Road Scholar’s Adventures Afloat shipboard programs, which resumed in August 2021. More than 6,500 older adults are currently scheduled to travel with Road Scholar between October 15 and December 31, 2021. “Knowing that everyone I sat on a bus with, sat across a table from and sat in a classroom with was vaccinated was reassuring.” “Requiring vaccinations allayed my fears,” said Georgina Schuster, a first-time Road Scholar participant. This is a policy Road Scholar established as soon as vaccines became available and to which we are fully committed.” “Especially in light of the new Delta variant, participants’ feedback has been consistent: they are grateful that we will only enroll people who have been fully vaccinated and that our on-site leaders must also be vaccinated. And, for Road Scholars, living means learning and traveling,” said Moses. “We all are settling into the reality of learning to live in a world with COVID. The most popular Grandparent programs focused on physical and educational activities with their grandkids, including canoeing in the Ozarks and learning about sea turtles in Georgia. National Parks and U.S.-based outdoor learning experiences. Road Scholar’s most popular learning adventures this year have been in Costa Rica, U.S. “These folks decided the time was right, they were fully vaccinated and they were ready to get back out in the world to learn and discover together.” I'm always surprised at how consistently the generations look at the transformational nature of being together in a learning community.“This was a summer for grandparents to reunite with their grandkids and embark on learning adventures across the U.S.,” said Road Scholar President James Moses. I think the biggest and most rewarding aspect of our program is that it's created a new life opportunity for people. Losing a spouse, leaving a workplace … you have to find a new way to live. Let's face it: You get to a certain age and your life is in transition. What's most exciting to you about this business? Princess Diana's protection officer was a lecturer so was Winston Churchill's granddaughter. The programs we've had have been focused on the royals and history. The ship itself is really like the old-time trans-Atlantic crossing. The next one I really want to do is the Queen Mary crossing to Southampton. My absolute favorite experience is to go to Africa on safari. Want more of our free, weekly newsletters in your inbox? Let’s get started. Now we're in much better quality hotels because that's what baby boomers desire. By the mid '90s, we were almost entirely out of college campuses and into hotels. Now with the baby boomers, the lust for learning is the same, but the expectations on accommodations have changed radically. They didn't care that much about where they slept. The World War II generation's sense of what an Elderhostel program should be was universal. I've always heard from professors fighting to teach these programs because the students are so engaged. We've gone as a society through such a transformation in understanding how great a time the "Third Age" is in people's life spans. Little wonder Moses calls it "the largest university in the world.'' What all the trips have in common is education, be it cultural, ecological, historical, you name it. Trips that allow families to travel with two and even three generations are gaining popularity, too. There also are plenty of options for those who prefer a more sedate pace. Bike rides, hiking, kayaking and urban adventures everywhere from Florida to Alaska to Peru to Paris spill out of the Road Scholar catalogs and website. Reflecting the popular demand for adventure travel, some of the trips are physically challenging. Last year, around 100,000 people took trips in every state and 150 countries with the nonprofit - formerly known as Elderhostel - which next year marks its 40th birthday. With all this in mind, I recently spoke with Jim Moses, president and CEO of Road Scholar, the nonprofit educational travel company that organized our trip.
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