Feb 14, 2008
There's impressive, change-your-life advice for travelers over the age of 50 in a website awkwardly entitled Over50andOverseas.com
Joining the Peace Corps, or volunteering for a dozen other arduous volunteer programs overseas, is normally regarded as a young folks' choice. John Dwyer, who is well over 50 in age, doesn't agree. He has created a fact-filled website called Over50andOverseas.com (www.over50andoverseas.com) which describes a whole host of idealistic overseas programs that mature Americans are fully capable of joining.
His own biography supplies the best example of how a person in the mid-course of his life, so to speak, can change his life through travel overseas:
His website deals with less exalted opportunities for voluntary service overseas, but it does point out how middle-aged and older Americans can volunteer for such challenging posts as in the Peace Corps.
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His own biography supplies the best example of how a person in the mid-course of his life, so to speak, can change his life through travel overseas:
In 1991 [when he was over the age of 50], John Dwyer joined the Peace Corps, a decision that has since led to international service in 14 countries and travel to 38 countries. After Peace Corps service in Guatemala John served as a United Nations Volunteer in the first elections in Bosnia after the Bosnian War and subsequently has worked elections in Serbia, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Albania, Montenegro, Russia, Ukraine and Bangladesh. He managed camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Herat, Afghanistan and did development work in Kandahar, Afghanistan. He continues to work internationally.
His website deals with less exalted opportunities for voluntary service overseas, but it does point out how middle-aged and older Americans can volunteer for such challenging posts as in the Peace Corps.
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Fifty years ago, 
Arthur Frommer is generally acknowledged to be the nation's foremost travel authority. He is the founder of the
