The attraction of travel is really for the younger folks.
Toys likewise.
Both are now so prohibitively expensive for all but the wealthiest. If I were fresh-out-of-the-box today I would cultivate a smaller house and set of possessions.
BTW friends are not friends because you travel with them. Real friends cost nothing except staying in contact with them.
Rick Steves type checklist tourism is a phony laborious hell.
Visiting a series of historic landmarks or towns is an empty experience unless you're interested in the place and have read a lot about it. That kind of trip is very different from the standard tour.
“The attraction of travel is really for the younger folks.”
Not really. The key is to travel inexpensively. We take day trips into West Virginia. Maybe a few days at an AirBNB at Beech Mountain or Blowing Rock. It’s 85 here in this Appalachian town, 92 in the city where I grew up and 75 on Beech. One thing that helps in retirement is where you live. You want to live somewhere where people like to go(mountains) and where it is safe (small town). Many of my friends have retired to the coast of the Carolinas.