By Rosanne Knorr

Long-term travel to exciting new places isn't just for the young. For empty nesters and early retirees, midlife is the ideal time to turn travel fantasies into reality.

Here's the book that takes mature travelers where they want to go. Indeed, 6.6 million Americans currently live abroad in more than 160 countries.

Featuring information on choosing a destination, making financial preparations, working abroad, and keeping the stateside home fires burning, this book covers everything one needs to know to create an amazing new life abroad.

This step-by-step primer has it all, from estimating cost-of-living expenses, and do's and don'ts of international health care, the boom in online travel resources, cost-cutting tips, packing advice, and much more.

The book goes beyond tourist sites and restaurant recommendations with practical information to help readers begin a new life wherever the world takes them. 224 pages. Softcover. 2008.

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