Boomeresque:Definition
1. Adj.: Describing a person born between 1 Jan. 1946 and 31 Dec. 1964
2. Adj.: Description of a person, place or thing possessing Baby Boomer je ne sais quoi
3. See also, Boomer, Esq.: A Baby Boomer who is also a licensed attorney (See, e.g., About).

Destinations

Wassup with the Vikings?

June 16, 2012 13 comments

No, not the Minnesota American football team.  I mean the real Vikings, like Erik the Red (Leif Erikson’s father) who sailed across the north Atlantic in long boats from Iceland in the 980’s, beating Christopher Columbus to the New World by over 500 years. Then there’s that unfortunate raping, pillaging and burning thing. We recently […]

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Tower of Babel

June 3, 2012 16 comments

No, not THAT Tower of Babel.  I’m referring to the one here in the lobby of the 3 star Absalon Hotel near the main Copenhagen train station in Denmark.  I am fortunate to be on a 25 day trip as a trailing spouse.  My physician-scientist husband (Steve) was invited to speak at three European conferences […]

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“The Finest Walk in the World”: The Milford Track, South Island, New Zealand

April 30, 2012 20 comments

  In 2002, I went on one of my favorite “trailing spouse” trips when my husband, Mr. Excitement, asked me if I would like to accompany him to Perth in Western Australia for a mesothelioma research conference.  I hesitated less than a nanosecond before replying, “Absolutely.” Perth, Australia is 11,602 miles from our home in […]

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The Apple Don’t Fall Far From the Tree

April 18, 2012 5 comments

  In my last post, I shared the fact that our travel plans seem to “foment war, revolution and Biblical weather”.  I also mentioned that we have so far dodged earthquakes and tsunamis.  We have also been spared any erupting volcanoes—we don’t count Kilauea on the Big Island of Hawaii because we went there on […]

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San Miguel de Allende, Mexico — 48 Years Later

April 2, 2012 47 comments

My last post about Mexico was entitled Mexico 1963 and it chronicled the year I spent in the Mexican town of San Miguel de Allende at age nine when my father decided to spend a sabbatical year there. Fast forward some 48 years. Ignoring friends and relatives whose only question was where they should send […]

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Mexico (San Miguel de Allende) 1963

March 25, 2012 29 comments

I was nine in 1963 and it never occurred to me that my parents did not have much of a plan. My father, a Philadelphia public high school ceramics teacher, decided to take a sabbatical year off at half pay which came to $3,000 in those days. My parents rented out our house, piled my […]

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Religion In Japan – My Simplistic Take

October 31, 2010 25 comments

The Japanese with whom we were able to discuss religion, all maintained that the practice of religion in Japan these days could best be characterized as a cafeteria plan. They said that they are born Shinto, marry as Shintos, die Buddhists and celebrate at least the secular aspects of Christmas. Many homes have both Buddhist […]

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Would you like salted fish guts with that??

October 4, 2010 7 comments

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As a long time resident of a major, mid-Atlantic American city (Philadelphia), I considered myself quite cosmopolitan in terms of my exposure to foreign food, including Japanese. However, after two weeks of eating Japanese food—in Japan of all places—I realize that sushi from an American supermarket is just Japanese food lite. Several of our hotels […]

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Flushing Sound???

October 2, 2010 22 comments

After a thirteen hour flight from Toronto, Canada to Japan, upon our arrival at Tokyo’s Narita International Airport, I made my usual ladies room stop upon deplaning. This proved to be my first, “Toto, we’re not in Kansas anymore” moment of our trip. I assume that it is merely coincidental that “Toto” is the name […]

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O Canada

August 31, 2010 4 comments

Sitting on the tarmac at Philadelphia International Airport on our Air Canada flight to Toronto, the first leg on our trip to Japan, I found myself reflexively humming the Canadian National Anthem, hoping that any Canadians nearby could not hear me. The Captain informed us that we were “aboot” 8th in line for take-off. I […]

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