Expert Columns
Santa Cruz Island in the Channel Island National Park: Power-packed outdoor days restore the soul, rejuvenate the body, and clear the mind.
By Linda Ballou, NABBW's Adventure Travel Associate About an hour north of Los Angeles a spectacular day trip to the Island of Santa Cruz awaits you. Turn up at the Island Packer dock in... Read More
What Women Shouldn't Retire Without: A practical financial checklist for the future.
Provided by Pamela J. Sams, CRPC, NABBW's Retirement Planning Associate When our parents retired, living to 75 amounted to a nice long life, and Social Security was often supplemented by a... Read More
Linda Ballou is Remembering Days in the “Bu” (Malibu, California)
By Linda Ballou, NABBW's Adventure Travel Associate I hiked the half mile around Malibu Lagoon to what is famously known as Surf Riders Beach, aka “Buns Galore” Beach. Barefoot surfers joined... Read More
Lollygagging at the Olallieberry Inn
By Linda Ballou, NABBW's Adventure Travel Associate The Olallieberry Inn is located in the East Village of Cambria on the Central Coast of California. This quaint Victorian-style inn nestling on... Read More
Linda's Fantastic South American Adventure Concludes: Wet, Wild and Wonderful - Patagonia
By Linda Ballou, NABBW's Adventure Travel Associate NOTE: My sojourn in South America began and ended in Buenos Aires where half the population of Argentina reside. Like most Americans, my knowledge... Read More
Let the Adventure Find You in Puerto Varas, Chile
By Linda Ballou, NABBW's Adventure Travel Associate NOTE: My sojourn in South America began and ended in Buenos Aires where half the population of Argentina reside. Like most Americans, my knowledge... Read More
Linda's Fantastic 17-Day South American Adventure: First Stop: Buenos Aires to Bariloche, Argentina
By Linda Ballou, NABBW's Adventure Travel Associate NOTE: My sojourn in South America began and ended in Buenos Aires where half the population of Argentina reside. Like most Americans, my knowledge... Read More
Holiday Grief: Why I Give You Permission to Do It Mindfully
By Ann Leach, NABBW's Associate for Loss and Change It’s probably already happened: you’re flipping through a magazine or finally sitting down with the Sunday paper and there’s the article... Read More
Jack London’s Beauty Ranch Spared
By Linda Ballou, NABBW's Adventure Travel Associate About twenty years ago, I followed Billy and Saxon, characters in Jack London’s novel The Valley of the Moon, on their journey in a buckboard... Read More
Advice for Today's US Travelers: How To Best Present Yourself as an American Abroad
By Phyllis Stoller, NABBW's Group Travel Associate As we travel these days, some of us are wary of being identified as American. We often forget that we can be ambassadors as well as tourists.... Read More
Haines, Alaska: Gateway to Alaskan Adventures
By Linda Ballou, NABBW's Adventure Travel Associate I have been migrating from Los Angles to Haines, the prettiest little town in Southeast Alaska, for the last 40 years. Like the arctic tern in... Read More
Single Boomer Women: Now's the Time to Make New Friends, See New Places. (Especially as you plan ahead for the year-end holidays!)
By Phyllis Stoller, NABBW's Group Travel Associate Boomer women are different. We were born into the post WWII era when things began to change for women. Our mothers went to work, we got college... Read More
Riding in the Hoof Prints of Isabella Bird at the Sylvan Dale Ranch
By Linda Ballou, NABBW's Adventure Travel Associate Fired by the rapturous descriptions of Estes Park and surrounds by Isabella Bird, a plucky Englishwoman who rode 800 miles solo in the Rockies... Read More
Lose your Heart at the Laramie River Ranch
By Linda Ballou, NABBW's Adventure Travel Associate Krista Burleigh, leading my ride, dreamed of owning a ranch and spending her life sharing her love of the outdoors and horses with her guests.... Read More
Now's the Time to Enjoy Traveling to Mexico's Non-Beach Locales
By Phyllis Stoller, NABBW's Group Travel Associate If you've previously traveled to Mexico for the beaches, you've missed out on a lot of the pleasures of this country, which is an inexpensive... Read More
River Cruises Are Among The Best Trips for Senior Women
By Phyllis Stoller, NABBW's Group Travel Associate We all have a travel bucket list, but as we get older our list changes. This is due to physical restrictions, changing diets, an altered... Read More
Whale Trail Stops on the Hwy 1 Discovery Route
By Linda Ballou, NABBW's Adventure Travel Associate When Donna Sandstrom got involved with transporting Springer, a stranded orca in the Seattle harbor to his home waters in Vancouver, she... Read More
