Travel with a Challenge
Discover the new world of cruise and land vacations for mature travelers, their families and friends!
While showcasing both well-established and freshly-minted alternative travel opportunities throughout the world, this website and its Web magazine promise its readers practical advice and plenty of nuts-and-bolts information to encourage active, educational, value-added vacationing suitable for men and women over 50. The one thing you won’t find is an excuse to stay home!
October – November 2025
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Celebrating 445 years of history in 2025, visit or stay at the original breeding and training estate for the dazzling white horses with dancing feet. Once the exclusive preserve of kings and nobles, it now welcomes vacationers for shows, tours, horseback riding and longer stays at its budget and upscale hotels on site.
Wrapped in 400 years of colonial history, Northeast Florida’s Amelia Island and the picturesque city of St. Augustine a little further south each offer a host of uniquely-furnished historic sleeps. A welcome bonus is the wide variety of signature breakfast cuisine that leave visitors begging for recipes.
Step aboard an elegant river cruise ship with Travel with a Challenge editor, Alison Gardner, to sample a week of stimulating exploration along the Rhone and Saône Rivers from Arles in southern Provence, through Lyon and on to Chalon sur Saône in southern Burgundy. Every day the 130 guests have much to see and do!
Calling all long walkers! Be inspired by Derry Brabb’s photographic essay as he describes and illustrates ten famous and lesser-known pilgrim routes in Britain, France, Spain, Switzerland, Germany and Italy. Maps, distance charts and follow-up websites are included in his new coffee table-sized book.
Naturalist and photographer, Jean-Pierre Sylvestre, encounters plenty of grizzly bears, killer whales and unexpected adventures when he visits British Columbia’s remote Knight Inlet Lodge floating on the sea.
Learn More About Travel with a Challenge
Launched in 2000, Travel with a Challenge web magazine’s mission has always been about encouraging our readership to look beyond mainstream rest and relaxation vacations and destinations to the wider, deeper travel opportunities that await the greatest adventurers of our time … the mature travel readership, ages 45 to 80+ years. Our editor shares secrets of the publication’s unique success over 24 years.
Be sure to visit the magazine’s entire Travel Article Library and the handy Theme Pages to browse our growing collection of richly-illustrated features. Finally, our innovative Travel Advertiser Directory is a treat not to miss. Click here to view our Feature Link of the Month.
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