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Eli Zebooker at the Great Wall of China
And on every adventure, the Zebookers always made sure to
take lots of pictures of themselves with a unique background
(pre-selfi e days) to cherish the memories for the years to come.

Th ose memories now reside in a huge photo album on
Zebooker’s coff ee table, a scrapbook of sorts he put together, fea-
turing every trip they’ve been on since their honeymoon around
Gloucester, Mass.; Maine; Georgetown, Md.; Split Rock in Penn-
sylvania; and Lake Pine, N.J. Eight heft y passports also weigh
down the back inside cover of the photo book (though more are
scattered throughout storage his condo).

Th ey spent a lot of time in Israel — in the Negev, before it was
really built into what it is now — as well as the Jewish quarter of
a few countries like Italy.

“Janet went swimming — well, fl oating — in the Dead Sea,”
he said. “I didn’t feel like going in that day, but it was a nice trip.

“Every trip I had was with my wife, except during the war,”
he joked. Zebooker was already a practicing dentist when he
was called to active duty in 1940. He received his undergraduate
degree from Franklin & Marshall College and then went on to
Penn Dental School. As an offi cer in the 20th Armored Division
and the 9th Infantry Division, he ended up in Munich during
World War II.

“It was also very close to the extermination camp,” he said
somberly. “It’s about 6 miles from Munich. We were the fi rst
people — my Army group — who went into that area.”
Aft er the war, the couple married. Th eir most recent cruise
trip was fi ve years ago to South Africa. (If you’re doing the math,
Zebooker was 100 years old at the time.) Th ey spent some time
visiting Cape Town, Zambia and the Victoria Falls.

For him, traveling as a centenarian is simple. “It’s not diffi cult
under any condition if you don’t expect too much. You fi nd out there’s
a lot there for you to see and do,” said the Delaware Valley native.

Any time they went somewhere, Zebooker would usually rent
a car and drive through the countrysides of Italy, France, Spain,
Portugal, Scotland, Wales — you name it.

But cruising is defi nitely the way to travel for older people, he
said. Th ey took their fi rst cruise in the 1970s and became hooked.

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