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!
March – April 2026
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Ever considered a home exchange? They can be the answer to prayer for families. Learn about successful strategies for exchanging homes [and even cars and pets] that will open the door to a memorable low budget vacation to be enjoyed by all in destinations around the world.
As seniors and boomers look for ways to connect with their adult children and younger grandchildren, there is a growing demand for creative inter-generational journeys that meet the needs and interests of different age groups. We’ve got great suggestions to start you and your family on a memorable exploration of the world together. Photo courtesy of Peter Sommer Travels
Ordained minister and counselor, Susan Copeland, reflects on the many motivations to undertake a pilgrim journey in the 21st century and the steps that unfold with making that decision. She shares her own experience of the joys and challenges going on pilgrimage and the destinations she has visited on the way.
Travel journalist, Alison Gardner, shares vivid memories of an ElderTreks cultural tour through western and central Turkey. Additional mini-articles with a Turkish theme are hotlinked separately below. Click on each image to access articles on: Ballooning in Cappadocia, Carpet buying, and Turkey’s first Olive Oil Museum.
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 25 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.
The stories in our latest TravelWatch senior travel newsletter offer fresh ideas and destinations about travel. We invite you to sign up to receive launch notification of each bi-monthly issue of this invaluable newsletter.
