I'm 70 and love to travel. A very high percent of my matches by EH are teachers. All say they want to travel, however, they also say they love their job, the kid interaction, and where they are employed. Most are still of working age. Teachers work many hours, have few days in a row off, and they usually state that they have read great books on travel, but have never traveled extensively. However......they want to travel.
I finally had to tell EH to quit matching me with teachers. I suppose, if the matched teacher was already retired, it might work. I have never seen a group of people who, state they love to travel and want to travel, but their job always interferes with them doing so. For me, I've found teachers extremely time limited, and a waist of my time.
Any comments on similar problems with teachers???
This is funny because I'm a teacher and travel all the time. Teachers normally work only 37 hours a week, about 6 hours per day and though we teach 10 months a year; with holidays and spring/winter break, we actually teach only about 8 months a year. Not to mention paid summer time off! But I see that you live in a state where it might be different...so that may be the problem. I'm home most days my 3:30 p.m (unless I have a meeting). What teachers are you meeting for God's sake? And are you trying to travel during the week, when not only teachers, but everyone else is working? You might want to try some of the sites that center on retired persons and their needs. This all sounds very odd because teachers have more free time and vaction time than any other occupation I can think of, and most of the teachers I know travel all the time!