<p>I have had similar feelings when on college visits with my kids. It all seems so great that I want to do it myself. Even when my oldest D asked to visit my alma mater because it sounded appealing to her in books, when we went back, I could see just why I had picked it and found the same college criteria appealing all these years later. </p>
<p>My inlaws are very into lifelong education. The community they live in is in a college town where Skidmore is located and every semester they are enrolled in courses there. They also have traveled to numerous Elder Hostels all over the place yearly. The most recent one they did was in RI so they could visit and see my D at Brown! </p>
<p>One thing I have hoped to do when someday I have more money and more free time (not sure that will happen with two kids' college tuitions to pay off but I can dream)....is to travel, particularly to other countries. So, count me in with the Parent Forum study abroad group. The one thing I felt I gave up when I married young while still in college (rare in my generation) was the semester I had thought I would do abroad. So, I'm still waiting to do it. </p>
<p>Susan</p>