Bay Area

Bay seniors in the mood to catch a Pacific breeze and soar via hang gliding may balk at the cost of lessons and licenses – they can take months and cost in the thousands including equipment. But just for the quick thrill of it, East Bay Hang Gliding has single lessons for $175 and tandem […]

Bay seniors whose knee replacements have healed nicely are invited to gambol along during Dance Week from this Friday until May 3. Over 400 events are scheduled around the Bay Area from ballet classes to participatory demonstrations of jazz, modern, hip hop, tango, ballet, swing, 70’s jazzercise, salsa, capoerira, afro-columbian, zumba, tango, belly dancing, even […]

Sports-minded Bay Area seniors who don’t know a batsman from a dink should check out the cricket action around here. Even though its recent surge in popularity  has been fueled by the growing South Asian community it has been played locally since 1881. There is a surprisingly active league especially in the South Bay during […]

Bay seniors may not advise friends to visit us in the middle of winter but that has not stopped 1.6 million shorebirds and waterfowl from flocking here on their annual pilgrimage. It is known as the Pacific Flyover and locals are honoring our avian visitors with a large handful of festivals everywhere from the South […]

Bay seniors concerned that twerking may throw their hips out, might want to consider learning a more flirty and erotic form of dancing. What could be more passionately adult than the Argentine Tango where you and your partner are glued together? Slow, sinuous and steamy there are classes for it all over the Bay Area. […]

Bay seniors, do the names Gene Nelson, Russ Syracuse and Tom Donahue ring any bells? Think hard. They were a few of the DJs manning the turntables at radio station KYA back in the day when you were listening to your first Beatles on your cool new transistor radio. What you may not know is […]

Bay seniors wondering if there’s any place around here that has not been malled over might want to drive 5 miles east of Fremont to Niles. This pioneer village was built in the 1850s as a junction for the Southern Pacific Railroad. (A wild west train still runs from Niles to Sunol). In 1912 Charlie […]

Bay seniors with an appetite for dining in the primeval depths of a redwood forest might want to reserve a table at Shadowbrook in Capitola. Established in 1947 it’s still till there hanging above Soquel Creek right before the stream spills into the Pacific. Shamelessly retro it’s planted on a lush garden hillside. Paths wind […]