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 mu...
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...
https://www.boomeresque.com/15-things-to-do-during-an-airport-layover/
As my Boomeresque Facebook friends know, ever since we returned from New Mexico in October, I’ve been mostly consumed by planning our trip to Southeast Asia and Hawaii. Some 32 years ago, I h...
https://www.boomeresque.com/the-longest-day-philadelphia-pennsylvania-usa-to-chang-mai-thailand/
We left our apartment at 5:30 A.M. for Philadelphia International Airport on Valentine’s Day to commence the first leg of our 6,000 mile journey to Honolulu, Hawaii. My husband, Steve, is an ai...
It is reported that Virgin Atlantic Airlines is now allowing cell (mobile) phone use during flights. Remind me never to fly on Virgin Atlantic. It is one thing to deal with a yakking cell pho...
https://www.boomeresque.com/virgin-atlantic-allows-cell-phone-use-during-flight-wtf/
My suitcase visited Barcelona several years before I had the pleasure. Unfortunately, on that particular occasion, it was supposed to be in Malaga with me. On a trip to New Zealand and Austra...
How many Baby Boomers (or grown-ups of any age) get on an airplane hoping that no babies or small children will be seated near them? I admit to an involuntary scanning of my nearby seatmates when...
It’s less than two months since we flew home from Japan and I again find myself composing a blog post at 35,000 feet on the second leg of a journey that is taking us from Phi...
At the risk of sounding terribly bourgeois (and maybe like a Baby Boomer), I must say that the opportunity to make our trip to Japan flying business class made the “getting there” and “gett...