Snowbirds Learn at Club Ed

First, I want to give Club Ed due props for cleverness. Club Ed? What a great name for a lifelong learning program. It shows their sense of humor, which, along with lifelong learning, is one of the secrets to longevity, certainly good health. It's a play on the whole Club Med concept of course.

Club Ed hails from Kerrville, Texas. I found it through Phil Houseal's article, The Secret Life of Snowbirds. He celebrates the northerners, snowbirds, who travel south to spend the winter taking dulcimer classes or learning anything they want. Club Ed classes are even available online for those fond of sticking close to the RV.

This touches me because my dad and his wife traveled every winter from Minnesota to a similar oasis in Tucson, where they loved playing cards with friends, taking classes in everything from pottery to weaving macrame lawn chairs, and where my dad played his fiddle in a band. My dad is gone now, but I have that macrame chair on my front porch.

I join Phil in toasting lifelong learners wherever you are and whatever you choose to learn. Keep learning. Keep loving. Be happy and healthy.

If you've got a favorite snowbird destination, share it with us in the forum and tell us what your favorite activities are there.