The Geezer’s Guide to Adventure
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Published by: Kua Bay Publishing LLC
Release Date: November 14, 2024
Pages: 88
ISBN13: 979-8985787559
Overview
Are you ready to redefine your retirement?
“Geezerdom... I began my journey 4 years ago with Don leading me to the edge of an erupting volcano, at 2:00 A.M., to learn and practice the art of astrophotography... my friends and family are amazed I did this, and I am grateful to Don for leading the way. Your life will become so much richer and interesting for following his advice. Do it!”
– Ron Elenbaas, retired Group President, Stryker/MedSurg
In The Geezer’s Guide to Adventure, Donald J. Hurzeler takes you on a thrilling journey that proves life after retirement is just the beginning. Forget what you’ve been told—retirement isn’t about slowing down, it’s about ramping up for the most exciting chapter of your life. Packed with practical tips, safety advice, and inspiration, this guide is for anyone looking to break free from the usual mold of retirement. Whether you're physically fit or facing health challenges, financially secure or watching your budget, this book offers strategies to help you find adventure on your own terms. Get ready to transform your retirement into the greatest adventure of your life!
At its core, The Geezer’s Guide to Adventure is about adding fun and excitement to your senior years, while making safety and finances top priorities. He also offers practical guidance on how to explore the world around you—and distant places—economically, and with a high degree of comfort. This book encourages readers not to leave their dreams as dreams, but to bring those dreams to life, turning retirement into the most adventurous phase of their lives.
If you’ve ever dreamed of experiencing new thrills, exploring distant places, or simply making your everyday life more exciting, The Geezer’s Guide to Adventure is the book for you. Hurzeler proves that anyone can embrace bold new challenges, no matter their age or circumstances. His step-by-step plan for safely and affordably adding adventure into your life will leave you wondering why you didn’t start sooner.
Don’t just retire—live! Buy your copy today and start your next adventure now!
Praise
"The Geezer’s Guide to Adventure adds to the Courage to Succeed series by redefining the ideal of ‘success’ in retirement years.
Many hold the notion that retirement marks entry into more placid water. Not if you approach the idea that retirement closes the door on requirement but opens a new one into adventure, spontaneity, and novel experiences.
The examples Donald J. Hurzeler presents in his survey of retirees who have cultivated an adventurous spirit and life despite financial and physical limitations are not just enlightening. They are inspiring.
And yet, The Geezer’s Guide to Adventure isn’t a gathering of idealistic dreams. It takes the needed added step of showing exactly how senior adventurers made plans, overcame obstacles, and honed lives of action and pleasure that taught them new things about themselves and the world around them.
Take the recommended foray into national parks, for one example. Via a one-time fee that grants seniors a lifetime of free entry, new travel opportunities open up that Donald J. Hurzeler reviews with vivid descriptions and mouth-watering possibility.
The main theme of this promotion of senior activity is crystal clear:
I am absolutely clear on the fact that lack of resources, and physical and mental limitations, can get in the way of adventure in our old age…in a significant way. However, please go back to my main theme here: What can you do? Do what you can—you are not excluded from the fun zone. In fact, I think you will find yourself very much welcome there.
What can you do? Live life to its fullest. Of necessity, this involves compromise. But that doesn’t mean a retiree should stay at home with a TV and four walls. Ability and limited budget do not translate to indoors dwelling … not with The Geezer’s Guide to Adventure in hand, which candidly addresses typical limitations and explores options which do work for embracing an adventurous lifestyle.
Take international travel, for example. It’s easy to say one is too old and tired to undertake the rigors of long-distance journeying, but Hurzeler shares his personal plan:
The best trick up our sleeve for international travel is this…. We are old, retired, and often tired when we go on big-time adventures. So, we try to break the big travel segments into two pieces with a rest day or more in between. For example, to get to Tanzania from Kona, Hawaii, we fly to Los Angeles to Houston to Amsterdam. We then stay at a hotel very near or at the airport in Amsterdam for one to three days and do absolutely nothing other than eat at our favorite restaurant in the world, Lars, for dinner each night. It also helps that we’ve been to Amsterdam dozens of times, so we have kind of seen it all. After our downtime in Amsterdam, we can then fly to Tanzania well-rested. We do the same on the way back. It’s a luxury…absolutely…but we have finally figured out that our health and comfort are worth the extra time and money.
By promoting an active ability-driven retirement, Hurzeler encourages his readers to open the door to new experience. That is life. That is priceless. And this is why libraries and patrons who choose The Geezer’s Guide to Adventure actually receive a blueprint for living their golden years that discusses not barriers, but revised opportunities.
To the moon, Alice! It’s there for the grasping, the road to success embedded in The Geezer’s Guide to Adventure."
-Diane Donovan, Senior Reviewer for Midwest Book Review