Travel smarter, reduce risk, and fully enjoy your adventures!
Travel abroad can come with many risks for the unprepared. This episode equips you with knowledge to travel smarter, stay safe, and fully enjoy your adventures.
The Risk of Travel
Travel opens the door to adventure—but it can also put your life at risk. Compared to staying at home, the potential for illness and death increases with travel, especially when people visit exotic or remote destinations in lower income countries. Each year, U.S. travelers die abroad from preventable causes like traffic crashes, drownings, and violence.
People don’t leave to go on vacation and think they will never return. Learn information to make your travels safer so you don’t become one of those statistics.
Travel Tips You’ll Learn
In this episode, we break down the real dangers of international travel and share practical, actionable strategies to stay safe and healthy. Whether you’re navigating unfamiliar roads, exploring new waters, or visiting bustling cities, this episode equips you to travel smarter, reduce risk, and fully enjoy your journey—so you can return home with stories, not become a statistic.
In this Episode:
- 01:58 – Film Recommendation: Disclosure
- 03:16 – Remembering Robert Redford
- 08:04 – How to Stay Safe on Vacation
- 25:31 – Excerpt from “In Our Likeness” by Bryan VanDyke
- 27:20 – Outro
References:
- Opinion | My Conversation With Robert Redford About Death – The New York Times
- Senior Travel and Tourism Statistics in 2025 │The Senior List
- Wyler, B. A., Young, H. M., Hargarten, S. W., & Cahill, J. D. (2022). Risk of deaths due to injuries in travelers: a systematic review. Journal of Travel Medicine, 29(5). https://doi.org/10.1093/jtm/taac074
- Injury and Death During Travel | Yellow Book | CDC
- Hu, F., Wen, J., Zheng, D., Ying, T., Hou, H., & Wang, W. (2024). The Principle of Entropy Increase: A Novel View of How Tourism Influences Human Health. Journal of Travel Research, 64(3), 752-761. https://doi.org/10.1177/00472875241269892
Resources:
- What Vaccines are Recommended for You | Adult Vaccines | CDC
- Smart Traveler Enrollment Program: STEP
- The Best Cruises for Single Seniors │The Senior List
- Travel Insurance, Travel Health Insurance, and Medical Evacuation Insurance | Yellow Book | CDC
- Travel Health Kits | Yellow Book | CDC
- International Travel | Travel.State.gov
- Official list of embassies from the U.S. Department of State
- How Travel Slows Down Aging And Improves Longevity | HuffPost Life
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