Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.
If anything we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young...
On a soap happiness never lasts for very long!
I always travel with my bike and it has become a little more difficult to do it nowadays but I stick it in 3 5 by 6-foot case and wheel that thing in.