Would you like to take day trips with other seniors?

Would you like to take day trips with other seniors?

  • Yes.

    Votes: 15 31.3%

  • NO.

    Votes: 21 43.8%

  • Maybe.

    Votes: 12 25.0%
  • Total voters
    48
Around here there is a Mint Festival, a Lavender Festival, a Cheese Festival, Cherry Festival, Wine and Harvest Festivals, then you've got your Renaissance Festivals, etc.

U-Pick orchards from grapes to strawberries and blueberries to apples and peaches. Yes, popular fishing spots at historic dams and such as well as charter fishing on the Great Lakes.

Nearby cities offer Museums and Art Museums. There are places that offer Dune Rides in big multi-person buggies. We have restored Historic Forts with re-enactors, spots like Mackinac Island near those.

Indoor shows and concerts of all types in cities within a day-trip's range. Shopping and outlet malls, resort towns with quaint restored downtowns full of shops, mini-museums, and parks often with huge displays of flowers and ornamentals.
 

I've voted "maybe", since it depends on the group. Some years ago my wife and me participated in one day trip a year, organized by the Catholic Women's Association of our village. Not that we are Christians or even Catholic (once I was), but it were the neighbors of us who organized it. We did like it, but after some years this stopped, since the members of the group obviously became too old and the interest of them waned.
 

CallMeKate said:
I absolutely adore traveling... ya know, I'm going to choose "maybe" for this particular question, though. My reasoning is that I don't think I'd want to travel with *only* seniors. If I'd get klutzy and fall on my posterior or sprain an ankle, (how embarrassing! :oops:) it would be nice to have a gen x or z or millennial bodybuilder on the trip to help out and fireman-carry me back to the vehicle. 🏋️‍♂️ :giggle:
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The problem with that though @CallMeKate is they would all be "falling over". It would look like a disaster zone with all the seniors sprawled out on the ground demanding a fireman's lift :eek::)
 
Jules said:
I wouldn’t mind as long as they didn’t start before 9.

Casinos often have day bus trips. You’ll get a variety of folks, mostly seniors, on those. Things will be upbeat on the way there.
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I lived in Las Vegas for a couple years. It was common to see a "senior bus" load and unload elderly visitors. Most senior buses were owned by the casinos and hotels, operated once or twice a week, and most of em went to and from Calif, Utah, and Ariz.
 
Sorry but, I am a no. Only because I walk quite fast and being in a group, I'd probably get bored with having to slow down and wait for people. Having said that, if in the future I have mobility issues, I'd probably like to have a group of friends to go out with.

@fuzzybuddy I hope you can find a local group or get some friends together so you can go on a few trips. It's a really good idea, especially for people with mobility problems as they generally have to rely on assistance to get out and about.
 
Trish said:
Sorry but, I am a no. Only because I walk quite fast and being in a group, I'd probably get bored with having to slow down and wait for people. Having said that, if in the future I have mobility issues, I'd probably like to have a group of friends to go out with.

@fuzzybuddy I hope you can find a local group or get some friends together so you can go on a few trips. It's a really good idea, especially for people with mobility problems as they generally have to rely on assistance to get out and about.
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I'm a fast walker too... but then I'm not 80..I'm a younger senior.. at 69 and fortunate apart from niggling OA in my knee and back to be very able... ... but that's not to say I don't enjoy the company of older people. because I do...
 
I voted "yes." Every time I went on a trip (not a day trip, but to Europe), there was a large percentage of elderly travelers in the group. They were cordial and easy to talk to. Several were well-seasoned travelers. They walked with everyone else. The mobility issues were not evident, as these folks were in good shape. I didn't focus on their health or age but on their conversations and good feelings they evoked.
 
When we were on European river cruise, the first day tour bus we were on was dedicated to seniors’ with mobility issues. We asked to be moved. Now, we’d welcome that. DH has a bad knee that really slows him down.
 
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I voted yes because I've enjoyed most of the experiences I've had on senior outings. When I was in my 20s I used to accompany my mother when her club had busrides. Those ladies were so much fun that I enjoyed hanging out with them. The last senior trip, though not all day, was with the senior center I used to belong to. We went to a dinner theater where Dr. Kay's Motown Review was the entertainment. We were there for a luncheon and a great time had by all.

The one experience that wasn't so great was when the senior center went to Camp Hope (N.J.). Some of it was nice, like checking out the scenery on the way and chatting with my bus and table mates. The food was okay, but the entertainment was terrible. Also the only other activities provided were playing bingo, which I don't like to do anymore and participating in a raffle. So I played games and listened to music on my phone part of the time.
 
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I'll go almost anywhere with almost anyone. As long as it is door to door. Make that at least one way.
 
It was chore traveling w my older golf buddies. A game that last's 3.5 - 4 hours and a post round beverage is fine, but add on 2 hours each way to get to another course and it becomes tedious.
 
NO We've reached the age where we're running out of gas. My wife and I always enjoyed traveling about together but rarely in the company of others (except for family members).

Been together for 71 years and at 90 and 88 our traveling days are over.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
I love to take day trips. But now that I'm pushing 80, and in a wheelchair, I don't have anybody to go with. I'd like to get a group together. Would you like to be in a senior day trip group?
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I would like to do that, but we are spread out over a large area. Wouldn't that make it difficult? I am also pushing 80 and feel we old folks need to have company with age-peers.

My problem is, judging from some of the responses I get from my posts here, is that many of you probably would not want me in your little group because I am very outspoken and individualistic in my thinking. Always been that way. I don't intend to change just to make the person next to me smile.

But yeh I would join. Oh and I would need to ride with someone because I gave up my leased car years ago. I decided I didn't want to be owned by my car.
 
C50 said:
I voted no. Not because of the group being seniors but because I like doing things by myself.

I've got to the point where my time is precious to me and I've become a bit selfish how I spend it. I like my own agenda, doing what I want when I want. I guess I no longer play well with others. lol
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Bingo! I agree completely. But sometimes I like to join the herd-mind just to see if people are still as hard to get along with as they were when I was younger. People join herds to feel wanted and accepted, but sometimes get upset when that idealization does not materialize.
 
I haven't been to any Meetup dot com activities for the past few years. Was active within a Meetup senior hiking group for a couple years. Noticed fewer Meetup senior groups are active now as those that had been active have dried up.

Our urban city has a senior center just a half mile walk away, but I have never used it though regularly receive mailings of activity schedules that always include some bus trips. Generally, my primary outdoor interests (skiing, landscape photography, backpacking) are too strenuous for anyone, much less seniors.

The above noted, yeah I could potentially find a group science oriented event interesting say to a museum, especially if those in the group were communicative and educated in whatever. Often find such among astronomy enthusiasts.
 
I have gone on a some day bus trips (three times - to a Marine Corp museum in Virginia, to a botanical garden to see holiday lights in Pennsylvania, and to Shenandoah Park to see autumn colors) from the 55+ community I live in, but the trip companies don't have accessible buses and a person has to be able to climb up the steps into the bus.

I sure hope when I'm older if I can't climb up steps that maybe I could find accessible day trips, otherwise I guess I'll be confined to the community activities using the community's accessible van. At least there are lots of things in the community (concerts, parties, picnics, plays, shopping, plant sales, etc).
 

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