Re-Discovering Road Scholar and Life Long Learning

As I spend more time looking up past employers and opportunities to build a porfolio of my past work, I was happy to find the layout for the Road Scholar website I helped piece together back in September 2015 - May 2016.

I was hired as a contract employee to be the Content Manager for their new website, and essentially needed someone to learn the content management system that Road Scholar, a 501c3 non-profit, was going to use to create their new website.

This was the first time I had any experience working with a non-profit, which at the time I more so considered them the educational travel experience company that they were better positioning themselves to be. This was also the first time I was introduced to the idea of "Life Long Learners" or people -- typically representing the title best at an older 40+ demographic, who is likely retired and yet trying to travel the world, and experience it more deeply than the beach and hotel rooms around the world.

These Life-Long Learners were most interested in learning about the culture and rich histories of many of these cultural landmarks around the world, that they would visit with the intention of traveling abroad, likely among other travel groups of other 40+ year old people, looking to the learn as much as they can from the experience.

And with the recent success of the HBO's White Lotus: Season 2, shot on-scene in the picturesque Italian island of Sicily, it felt like a gentle nod to me to see the website in the same layout that I helped create and collaborate on, still displaying similarly iconic destinations, at a time in my life where I too am more closely living the idea of becoming a life-long learner.

Although, you could argue that EVERYONE is a life-long learner for the duration of each of our lives, I relish the idea that more of us can take a first-hand approach to learning more deeply while we travel, and continue to grow.

If you're interested in learning more about how to become a Road Scholar yourself, check out their website below:

www.roadscholar.org

Tell em, Mike D. sent ya!