David Hunter Bishop

I thought I had it made in Hawaii after a 37-year career in journalism, but when the retirement recliner started chafing my butt, I packed up and hit the road in 2016. Now I’m a senior solo traveler, looking for fun, adventure and friends around the world, staying alive by not staying still. I’ve hiked and biked in the Peruvian Andes, jumped over waterfalls in Guatemalan jungles, rode motos in the wild streets of Hanoi and Saigon, explored the swampy depths of the Mekong Delta, worked on a Mayan farm up the Columbia River in Belize, drank with Berliners at German beer fests, hung with the hooligans at a futbol match in Medellin, sat in Mexico’s team dugout at the Caribbean World Series in Culiacan, played the black market cigar game in Havana, bought legal pot in The Netherlands, negotiated for some not so legal stuff elsewhere, and always went where I was told not to go. I found friends and lovin’ all along the way and the stories just keep comin’! Life is good if you make it that way.