Have Experience and Wisdom, Will Travel; We've found a way to see the world, meet new friends and make our golden years meaningful.

Publication: Newsweek

Publication Date: 28-JUN-04

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Byline: Joan Lowell, Lowell lives in Scottsdale, Ariz.

There are many different portrayals of aging adults. There are the sad, incompetent, forgetful elderly who must be protected from thieves and swindlers. Then there are those featured in advertisements, their white or blond hair beautifully coiffed, playing golf or tennis outdoors, or dining grandly in their gated retirement home. I would like to suggest another option for those of us in retirement: we can share life-learned skills with people in other countries who have never seen a retirement community.

When my husband and I became Peace Corps trainees in Kazakhstan in 1994, he was 65 and I was 59. Even so, we weren't the oldest in our group of 53 trainees. Marge was a 69-year-old retired...

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