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A Lifetime of Learning
Gayle B. Thanks Road Scholar for Giving Her the World
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FALL 2025
→ Please enjoy this longer profile about Gayle B. who was featured in our July catalog.
etting foot on Spanish soil in the spring of 2000 was the first of more than 50 Road Scholar learning adventures that Road
Scholar supporter Gayle B. and her husband, Steve, experienced during their 64-year marriage. By foot, bicycle and barge, the couple’s journey spanned not only continents but decades. From petting whales in Baja, biking dirt paths in five European countries, a safari in Kenya, trying salted cod in Iceland and watching ballet shoes sewn in Cuba, Gayle’s journey has been one of beauty, growth and change. “Giving back is my way of thanking Road Scholar for all of the joy and wonder these experiences brought me,” says Gayle.
“It’s the variety Road
Gayle and Steve
Scholar offers that you
explored via bike paths
don’t even know you
and waterways in 2004
want,” says Gayle. “You
on A Cycling Journey:
arrive somewhere new,
Bike and Barge in
and there’s such a
Holland and Belgium
world of activities,
— during the 60th
flavors and traditions
anniversary of the
that you couldn’t have
Battle of the Bulge.
imagined. Road Scholar
“We followed the
gifted us with surprise
route of the allied
and wonder — that’s
army, biking through
why we wanted to give
tiny towns celebrating
back,” she says.
their freedom,” says
Road Scholar gifted us with surprise and wonder, and that’s why we wanted to give back. continued on page 3