They've also traveled the world in real life, driving a series of RVs to every state (except Hawaii) and taking volunteer trips to places like Tonga and Indonesia. They've traveled the world via the airwaves as avid ham radio operators, a hobby they took up in their teens. If living a full, long life means having a variety of interests and being actively engaged in the world, the Robidouxes are good role models. But they built canoes and raced them, became competitive bowlers and tramped through all the state parks in Minnesota, searching for and photographing 600 varieties of wildflowers and 43 orchid types, almost all known orchids native to the state. The 86-year-old identical twins studied electrical engineering and worked for pioneering computer companies at a time when few women had careers in STEM fields. Janet and Janice Robidoux didn't live the kind of life that people would expect of women of their generation.
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