Posts tagged with: "mature travellers"

• Inspiration
• Travel Stories

• about 4 min
• 12 comments

When I was younger, I often heard, “Travel when you’re young!” as advice from older folks. Even then, I knew I wanted to keep traveling no matter what age, but part of me wondered if it were true. “Will I ever be too old to travel?” I worried. Now that I’m well into my thirties, I can definitely say that traveling in your 30’s is not only possible, it has advantages! Not just because of my age, but because my experiences and all of the lessons learned have shaped how I navigate the world.

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• Using Workaway
• Inspiration

• about 4 min
• 62 comments

Travel and volunteering have no expiry date, so here are 5 little reasons why you should consider using Workaway when you are living in the ‘golden years’ after you’ve retired.

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• Inspiration

• about 2 min
• 65 comments

Mention Workaway and a lot of people would imagine a backpacker in their 20s, running around tropical destinations in flip flops and partying in hostels. Almost every day we get asked, “am I too old for Workaway? Are there other workawayers my age or will I be the odd one out?” Meet Kim, a 55-year old traveller who is on her first Workaway adventure in Costa Rica!

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• Workawayer of the Month

• about 5 min
• 15 comments

Well, we felt it’s not always the things in life that you do that you sometimes regret, it’s the things that you don’t do. If there’s something that you really want to do, just take a chance! You can always go home if it doesn’t work out. It was a bit scary thinking about it and we talked about travelling for about a year before we realised that the only thing stopping us, was us.

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