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).

Another Victim of Hurricane Sandy — Moi :(

November 12, 2012 51 comments

Hurricane Sandy Damage, North End of Brigantine, New Jersey

In October of 2012, at our Center City Philadelphia apartment, Hurricane Sandy was almost a non-event for us. We had flashlights ready, canned food and bottled water, but while a cousin who lives in Red Bank, New Jersey didn’t have her electric power restored for eleven days, we barely even heard the wind. Our closest […]

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Election Day in the USA — What Could Go Wrong?

November 5, 2012 12 comments

Polling Place Attorney Badge

For Boomeresque readers from across The Pond—and across The Other Pond (I’m talking about Aussies, Kiwis and people living in Asia and on the Indian sub-continent), and our fellow North Americans and fellow other denizens of the Western Hemisphere — you may have heard we’re having an election for President of the United States tomorrow. […]

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Ireland Road Trip – Kinsale and the Spanish Armada

October 24, 2012 18 comments

Ned Kelly's Bar in Kinsale, Ireland

If you like to travel in geographical or chronological order, click here to go back and check out Part One of our Irish road trip. Like most travelers, I delight in seeing new places, meeting new people and, of course, eating. (People, seriously, why don’t we have clotted cream with our scones in the U.S.!?!) […]

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Tenerife, the Canary Islands – More Sol Than the Costa del Sol

October 9, 2012 16 comments

Mount Teide, Highest Mountain in Spain,Tenerife, Canary Islands

In early March of 2001, my husband, Steve, and I were dispatched to Torremolinos on the Costa del Sol on the southern coast of Spain to retrieve Nona, Steve’s 91 year old grandmother, from the hospital. While vacationing there (she was a very spry 91 year old), she fell and broke her hip. As is […]

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Aspen, Colorado – Skis Optional

September 30, 2012 20 comments

Maroon Bells, White River National Forest, Colorado

When most people hear “Aspen, Colorado”, they think “Oh, that place where the one percent go skiing.”  While you certainly would not look out of place were you to show up in Aspen in February, by private plane, wearing a couture ski outfit and fur coat, this Rocky Mountain town is actually a reasonable destination […]

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“What the ?!” Travel Photos

September 26, 2012 8 comments

What the ?!

When travel bloggers are not busy on the road (and every other imaginable form of transportation), we like to challenge each other to contests.  One fun one is Travel Photo Roulette.  Boomeresque thanks the GypsyNesters for choosing our submission as a runner up in the Photo Roulette contest that just concluded. (“Our submission”? Who am […]

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Timeshares: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

September 25, 2012 38 comments

Update: March 6, 2016:  Mr. Excitement and I are just back from Hawaii. During part of our trip, we stayed at one of the resorts that line the beautiful Ka’anapali Beach on the Hawaiian island of Maui. At each hotel, there were an annoying number of salespeople wanting to tell us about the hotel’s vacation […]

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What to Expect When You’re …Working Abroad

September 25, 2012 0 comments

flags from around the globe

(This post is not really by Jeremy.  It’s by me (Just One Boomer).  Jeremy was not even a gleam in my eye when I was an expat in Mexico, England and Colombia.) Back in the day, when I was a Baby Boomer expat living  in Mexico (1963), England (1969-70) and Colombia (1974 ), contemplating living, […]

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September 12, 2012 0 comments
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On the Road in Spain with Our #2 Boomlet

September 4, 2012 17 comments

Updated: November 3, 2018 This article appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Travel Section on September 2, 2012.  (It has since disappeared from their website. So much for my 5 seconds of local fame.) When our son was a high school student in a suburb of Philadelphia, he rejected my advice that it was very helpful […]

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