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Oldster Travel Questionnaire

This questionnaire is a special collaboration with Oldster Magazine and Road Scholar— the not-for-profit world leader in educational travel for older adults.

We want to hear why you travel, how travel has changed you, and what places you dream about. Your stories and input will help inspire the future of our educational programs on our mission to help people age adventurously.

Scroll through these questions and answer whichever prompts inspire you most, in as much detail as you're inspired to provide.

We can't wait to read about your adventures.

Learn more about Road Scholar at roadscholar.org.
1.What is your current age?
2.Which of these best describes your gender identity?
3.Have you traveled with Road Scholar before?
4.Why do you travel?
5.What do you think are the greatest benefits of travel?
6.Who is your favorite person to travel with and why? (The answer can be “yourself.”)
7.Do you believe travel makes you happier? Healthier? How?
8.Tell a story about the trip or destination has had the biggest impact on you.
9.How has travel affected your sense of yourself, or your identity?
10.How has travel changed your perspective on others, humanity, the world? Give an example.
11.What destination surprised you the most? Why?
12.Describe the most memorable person you’ve met on your travels.
13.What's one thing you've learned from another culture that has stayed with you long after you returned home?
14.When was the last time you felt genuine wonder while traveling? What sparked it?
15.Complete this sentence: "I knew I was truly traveling—not just visiting—when..."
16.What has travel given you? What has it changed about you?
17.What is your greatest travel regret?
18.Is there a destination that keeps calling you back? Why?
19.Do you prefer returning to places you love or discovering somewhere new? Why?
20.Where is the one place that you MUST travel, and why?
21.Is there anywhere you dream of visiting that you think you’ll never reach, whether because of time, budget, mobility, remoteness, etc?
22.If you won a trip to anywhere in the world, where would you go? Why?
23.What are your travel goals?
24.If you could spend a month learning one skill or tradition anywhere in the world, what would it be?
25.What does "adventure" mean to you today? Has that definition changed over the years?
26.Tell us aboutyour greatest travel role model.
27.What do you like most about traveling at this stage of your life?
28.What's become easier—and harder—about travel over the years?
29.What's one lesson travel has taught you about getting older?
30.If your younger self could see the traveler you've become, what do you think would surprise them most?
31.What's your greatest piece of travel advice?
32.Finish this sentence: "The next adventure I'm dreaming about is..."
33.May we reach out to you with follow-up questions about what you shared? If so, please provide your email address here.