I agree....do both...travel and go back to spend quality time with her frequently.
The one reason we live across the road from my parents is their age. We do not travel to be gone for more than 1 month and won't until later even though we aren't spring chickens either. We both spent a lot of decades away from family so we don't want to be away that long ever again.
We found that seeing stuff just wasn't as much fun or rewarding as spending time with family. In fact we center our travel around family since we've seen about all the country as we wish to see.
Retirement and being able to live where we want and do what we want allowed us this freedom, not like the working and military days when we "had" to be elsewhere.
Life is too short to stress about anything...wing it!
