Older Americans probably can remember when people used to plan and save – often for many years – in order to take " the trip of a lifetime." Often it meant returning to part of the World where they or their parents lived before they came to this country or to places where family, friends or relatives still lived. Today, faster and cheaper transportation has changed both the frequency and length of many peoples' travel. Have students test this ideas by interviewing people they know who are under 30 years old, 30 to 45 years old, 45 to 60 years old and over 60 years of age. Determine where individuals in each group have traveled outside the United States and how often they have done so. Have teams/class combine their findings by developing color-coded pie or bar graphs and attach these to appropriate locations worldwide. Do any patterns exist? What do their collective findings indicate about increasing travel? What world areas are poplar? Which ones are seldom visited? Can they suggest reasons?