From Backpacks to Suitcases: Reflections on Six Winters Traveling in Asia

by Kathy Piper, Robert Piper

Overview

Just retired? Seize the opportunity to travel to Asian countries. Highly affordable when collecting air miles on your VISA or other card. Cheaper by far than many areas of the world but also very safe. English language is widely spoken (an extra bonus). Don't let your good, healthy years slip by without exploring this dynamic corner of the world. Seniors rank at the top over there and you are not ready for that rocking chair yet!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780228811947
Publisher:	Tellwell Talent
Publication date:	05/24/2019
Pages:	254
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

We are Canadian seniors now in our late seventies. We live in a new home on the shores of Shuswap Lake at Salmon Arm, British Columbia, Canada. When we started traveling in 2002, we had backpacks. A few years later our backpacks had wheels. Now we travel with suitcases on wheels.
Although we keep telling ourselves to travel light, we still pack many unnecessary items now that we have large suitcases. On our last flight home, Kathy asked to change seats with me. I soon realized why she did this, for I was now seated beside a man who "stank to High Heaven!" He had been traveling for six months with the bare minimum in a tiny backpack. Obviously he did not pack deodorant! Now that is traveling too light!
We hope to make two four month trips to Africa before the cost of travel insurance becomes prohibitive. We still have the wanderlust.