{"id":6786,"date":"2013-04-17T14:33:41","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T14:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preferhome.com\/seniors-remember-the-exciting-roads-home\/"},"modified":"2013-04-17T14:33:41","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T14:33:41","slug":"seniors-remember-the-exciting-roads-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preferhome.com\/locations\/blog\/seniors-remember-the-exciting-roads-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Seniors Remember the Exciting Roads Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S Route 1 paints a meandering trail across the Eastern Seaboard from Key West, Florida to Maine. Yet much like the fabled Route 66, Route 1 hides treasures overlooked and unseen by younger travelers like myself, who are usually flying home on the nation’s Interstate system.<\/p>\n

Today was a different day. Today the race home had gotten dull and I had finally had enough. I zipped off of I-95 on to the old U.S. 1, taking a gamble on a sign marked simply “lighthouse.”<\/p>\n

As I reached the summit\u201417 stories above the Atlantic and exactly 13hrs and 46 iPhone minutes from home\u2014I was shocked by what I saw.<\/p>\n

The view was spectacular, yes; but more astonishing was the duo of senior travelers<\/a> who had beaten me to the top. Both in their mid-70s, they had made the arduous climb up 213 winding metal stairs and were gazing across the sun-soaked inlet. Far below, tiny sails bellowed in the wind and waves broke over the jetties.<\/p>\n

As I struggled to catch my breath, we marveled at the view.<\/p>\n

Marlon and Emma McCormick had known about Ponce de Leon Lighthouse long before I had. In 1958, Marlon’s parents had veered off of then new Interstate-95 en route to the old brick giant\u2014a treasure they could see from Route 1 on their honeymoon in 1940. Marlon took Emma there on their honeymoon in 1963, and they’ve cared to visit as often as they could ever since.<\/p>\n

Even at 75, the steps didn’t seem to phase them.<\/p>\n

As I descended the never-ending staircase, I left the McCormick’s at the top.<\/p>\n

I turned the key to my Mustang and set off.<\/p>\n

When I left the interstate, I wanted to explore. I wanted to go somewhere nobody I knew had been before. And as I rolled back to U.S. Route 1, I realized: if you want to explore, if you want to go where none of your friends have gone before, follow the seniors home\u2014they already know the way.<\/p>\n

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