Travel for seniors: 94-year-old doing global challenge [Video]

She didn’t get a passport until she was aged 91, but a year after becoming the oldest person to visit all 63 National Parks in the U.S., “Grandma Joy” Ryan is embarking on a new global challenge with her grandson Brad Ryan, 42.

The intergenerational duo, who went viral with their national parks quest in 2023, are now planning to travel to all seven continents in the world together. 

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“I don’t have many years left, [so] you hop to it,” Grandma Joy, now 94, tells CNN Travel via Zoom. “If you slow down, you don’t get anything done.”

Grandma-grandson duo

The pair has already ticked off three continents, visiting Banff National Park in Canada last year to “represent North America well beyond just our own country” and travelling to Africa, visiting both Amboseli National Park and Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya, in 2023.

Their most recent trip …