Baby boomers came of age during a transportation revolution. During the course of the twentieth century, human beings conquered flight and space, paid homage to the combustion engine, and saw an explosion of vehicles as playthings, as well as a way to transport people and things from one location to another.
Think about the baby boomer fascination with modes of transportation. If you’re like me, you either engage or have friends that have a passion with cars of all types, planes (building and flying), bicycles, motorcycles, boats, recreation vehicles (the big ones), as well as all the toys with engines that have been developed over the last generation to travel over all types of terrain and in all kinds of water.
Transportation continues to be a center of fascination for people, especially men. However, this passion isn’t limited to men only. The mode of transportation is the fun. Whether over land, in water or in the air, people are fascinated with all the modes of transportation.
As leisure activities, people are enthralled with all types of transportation. Miniaturized modes of transportation is a fascination to some. In addition, boomers like restoring, repairing and acquiring regular sized vehicles, as well as using them for recreation and sports. Vehicles as homes have grown as many people travel the open road in RV’s or the open waters in boats. Travel continues to be one of the most popular retirement activities and for many, the destination isn’t nearly as much fun as the mode of transportation.
Because modes of transportation is such a huge passion for many retirees, there are separate leisure articles for rail, air, water and on land. These articles look at sports and recreation, hobbies (including collecting), spectator activities, travel and lifestyle choices with travel.
While age is a negative factor in some forms of transportation work, it’s an asset for other positions. For some people there are interesting and creative ways of starting a business around transportation.
Baby boomers grew up with a passion for all things that move. The love affair isn’t going to wane in retirement. For many, retirement is just the beginning of an opportunity to renew the fervor for transportation.
This article is one of the Retirement Activity Guides. To learn more and begin at the beginning, click here.
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