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).

Travel Tips

Getting There – Eventually (And Some Tips for When Air Travel Doesn’t Go As Planned)

September 27, 2019 29 comments

Airplane position display

Mr. Excitement was invited to speak at an international medical research conference on the Greek island of Crete — something about tumor micro environments. Needless to say, it didn’t take much convincing for me to sign on as a trailing spouse. A few weeks later, the Australian government extended an invitation for him to visit […]

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Travel Book Gift Recommendations By Travel Bloggers

December 17, 2018 26 comments

Travel Book Gift Recommendations By Travel Bloggers

Disclosure: This post with travel book gift recommendations by travel bloggers contains “affiliate links” to Amazon.  If you follow a hyperlink from here to a book on the Amazon site and purchase the book, Boomeresque will receive a tiny small commission on the sale that does not affect your price, but will help a tiny […]

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A Nice Place to Stay in Bucks County, PA: A Review of the Galvanized America Inn & Gallery

December 2, 2018 7 comments

Galavanized America Inn, Bucks County, PA at night

Growing up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where both the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution were debated and enacted, it is understandable I became a bit of a history geek. At an early age, I felt the thrill of walking in the footsteps of Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other assorted Founding […]

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Should You Book the Celebrity Cruise Lines’ Pre-Cruise Quito Land Tour Extension?

July 9, 2018 21 comments

Equator line at Museum outside Quito, Ecuador

When I booked our bucket list Galapagos Islands cruise, I was knee deep in the thicket of planning our independent travel to Cuenca, Ecuador; and Colombia. So, I admit I took the lazy easy way out and also booked the Celebrity Cruise Lines’ pre-cruise Quito land tour extension. We were quite satisfied with our my choice. The […]

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Zentangle Diva Challenge #358 – Back to Barcelona Edition

April 4, 2018 14 comments

Basilica of La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona

For the first challenge of every month, the Zentangle® Diva (Laura Harms) picks a tangle that is new to her for us to use. This month she chose Pickpocket by Tomás Padrós of Barcelona in the autonomous region of Catalunya. (I was going to say from Spain, but there’s a strong separatist movement in Catalunya […]

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My Favorite Travel Credit Card, Chase Sapphire Reserve

January 11, 2018 26 comments

Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Disclosure: Chase Bank has less than  0% interest in having Boomeresque as an affiliate. However, this post contains links that could result in Mr. and Mrs. Excitement acquiring additional “Chase” points which they would use to support their travel habit. Notwithstanding this touch of enlightened self interest, the opinions expressed below are based on my own […]

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15 Things to Do During an Airport Layover

June 24, 2017 48 comments

Airport waiting area

There was a time in my life when I had more time than money. If the cheapest airplane ticket required three airport layovers, so be it. Fortunately, having reached the ripe old age I am, the time-money ratio has swung more in the opposite direction, so now I’m all about finding non-stop flights  — and […]

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Zentangle Diva Challenge #268 – TSA Update Edition

May 17, 2016 22 comments

Dawn over the Atlantic enroute to Dublin.

(If “Zentangle” is a new concept for you, start here.) This week, the Zentangle Diva challenged us to add a “bit more black” to our composition than we might usually. I must be feeling a bit distracted by our impending move (on June 10th) because I completely missed the “bit” part and used considerably more […]

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It’s Official! TripAdvisor Thinks We’re Exciting Baby Boomer Travelers

February 29, 2016 29 comments

TripAdvisor logo

I admit to more than a little satisfaction when I learned that Boomeresque was named by the Trip Advisor vacation rentals blog as one of the 20 Baby Boomer Travel Bloggers Having More Fun than Millennials. This is because our son and many of his friends are millennial travel bloggers and they write about how wonderful […]

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AARP Member Discounts – A 50th Birthday Present

May 16, 2015 51 comments

Because sometimes you need a rainbow, butterfly, unicorn kitten

Like many Baby Boomers, I was a little taken aback around my 50th birthday when I received my invitation to join AARP (formerly known as the American Association for Retired Persons). However, I soon realized that eligibility for AARP membership did not mean I was old retired. Consistent with Mr. Excitement’s sometimes annoying philosophy that life’s […]

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