One of the advantages of retiring early is that you can seek out travel adventures before you reach the expiration date of your knees. With that in mind, we asked travel writer Patricia Schultz to give us a list of rugged must-see destinations around the globe for energetic retirees. Schultz is the author of the best-selling 1,000 Places to See Before You Die and the newly released 1,000 Places to See in the USA & Canada Before You Die ($19.95 each, Workman Publishing). Schultz promises that none of these trips is an extreme expedition along the lines of scaling Mt. Everest or rowing across the Atlantic. But they're not cakewalks, either. Schultz, 54, has tackled most of them in recent years, and her knees have yet to give out.
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