“when in their late 60’s or early 70’s they quit working for money.
Business travel even non airplane travel soon becomes a no go. For these guys.”
That is me. I flew a lot on business when I was working—hated it.
Part of the joy of retirement for me is no more airports, no more rental cars, no more hotels!
My wife wants to travel from time to time.
My answer: “Go for it!”
;-)
You sound like me and now my wife and one of our adult sons.
He resigned this treadmill last December.
He had told his 20 something years work with the same company, no more airplanes, hotels, cabs and rental cars. Then, they said that he had to travel, no zoom or the other people coming to his office. So for a year he just drove in N. California. Covid was supposedly the reason.
Travel by vehicle during both sides of a rush hour+ made a very long and often dangerous day with other drivers like him. His bosses would say it is only 60-90 miles each way.
Yet, the meetings, and his so called work began at 8:30 and didn’t end until 5:30+.
In reality, each 8 hour out of town meeting often took at about 12 hours out of his life besides leaving him exhausted and blahhed out, when he finally pulled into his home driveway.
Then, he would face a similar situation, the next day and the rest of the week.
So, he pulled the plug and is now looking for a local non travel job.