There is a phenomenon known as the "Inverse Travel Conundrum". It is based on the problems of aging. While aging itself is a good thing, the older we get the harder it is to travel. However, often you can only afford the time and money to travel when you are retired.
The young have the greatest need to travel. Travel educates you and gives you wonderful experiences. The earlier you travel the better you are at understanding the world. However (that word again), when you are young you usually are trying to work, get started, and just pay the bills. That is, unless you have rich parents and you just decided to spend two years bumming around the world before finishing college. Few have willing parents who will fund adventures.
Thus we find that travel and adventure may occur when we are most ready for it, but least able to participate in it. Paragliding in the Andes sounds great for a seventy year old, but few accomplish it.
This is similar to the inverse need for money. When you have a young family you need money and don't have much and when you are old and the kids move away you have more but don't need it.
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