Expert Columns
Travel-Related Books Make Great Gifts for Friends with a Wandering Eye
By Linda Ballou NABBW's Adventure Travel Associate I love travel narratives. These are a few of my favorite travel books sure to whet your wanderlust. These are not typical guidebooks, they... Read More
Tips for Baby Boomers -- Retirement and Panic (Part 1)
By Marie Langworthy, NABBW's Transforming Retirement Associate Until now, you may have thought panic attacks -- if they even existed -- were reserved for "weaker folks." You know, people like:... Read More
Facing Retirement Without Savings (Part 1)
By Marie Langworthy, NABBW's Transforming Retirement Associate Yikes! Water! Water! My hair’s on fire! Oh, it’s not my hair! It’s my bank account! I have completely smoked it! I... Read More
Healing Lessons from the People of Old Hawai’i
By Linda Ballou, NABBW's Adventure Travel Associate No matter what your relationship with the person who brought you into this world—be it good, bad, or indifferent—it is always complicated.... Read More
A Perfect Day 1 in Paris: Arrive & Make it Yours
By Dr. Carolee Duckworth, NABBW's Independent Travel Associate Imagine yourself on a great 5-day trip to Paris. How would you design your days to have the most engaging and captivating experience,... Read More
Boomers: AARP Offers a Treasure-Trove Website You Can Easily Mine
By Marie Langworthy, NABBW's Transforming Retirement Associate Sure, most of us are familiar with the more popular, standard offerings of the AARP Web site (https://www.aarp.org), such as auto and... Read More
Dose of the Wilderness- RX for “Urbanitis”
By Linda Ballou, NABBW's Adventure Travel Associate Ever want to turn off the city and just run? Urbanitis is a common condition in the City of Angels that causes me to dodge crowds, noise... Read More
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
