Category: Baby boomer travel
A Single Female Baby Boomer Expat in Ecuador
We always love it when a baby boomer strikes out on her own. Regina Potenza is a good example. She roughed it as an expat in Mexico, then when that got old, she went further south. It’s worth reading her story about the Adventures of a Single Female Expat in Ecuador.
Gulf States Want More Baby Boomers
A growing number of snowbirds heading south in search of warmer weather during the winter are Baby Boomers — outwardly mobile retirees and vacationers who are traveling in motor homes or campers or cars or planes to escape the cold.
Baby Boomers and RVs
RVs. Recreational vehicles. Either baby boomers love them or hate them. There seems little middle ground.
Munich: Surf City Europe
Where will we go when we have time to go somewhere? Where will we live when we have time to retire? BoomerCafé publisher and co-founder David Henderson has found one place that never entered his mind … until he got visions of the Beach Boys at Surf City.
California’s Mural Towns
Amid all the diverse art and culture in California are its murals … large murals created over the last several decades, and located mostly in smaller towns. San Francisco-born art historian Kevin Bruce has traveled the state to write about its murals for a new book, “Large Art in Small Places: Discovering the California Mural [...]
A Sailing Getaway
If you’re into sailing and maritime history, you’ll find this news release from the Annapolis and Anne Arundel County visitors bureau pretty exciting, and it’s just 50 miles from the nation’s capital, reports Ruth and Rich Carlson for the Examiner.com. Annapolis Maritime Museum officially reopened to the public in December 2008 following a $1.2 million [...]
First-Class and Affordable Boomer Vacation
Overseas trips are getting more expensive, and in this economy, money’s getting tighter. That’s why we like it when we hear about a first class vacation that’s just right for boomers, right here at home. Brian Meshkin found a place with a famous name that has everything we might want. With the full spectrum of [...]
Washington’s Cherry Blossoms – 2009
Each year in early April, the famous cherry and tulip trees burst into bloom around the Jefferson Memorial and the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C. It’s the city’s biggest annual tourist attraction. Hundreds of thousands of visitors come from around the world for the cherry blossom festival and just to walk beneath the canopy of [...]
Mexico Remains Popular Among Boomers
Despite the troubling headlines about drug-related crime and violence in parts of Mexico, the country continues to be a popular tourist destination, especially for baby boomers, according Diana Rowe of the Denver Travel Examiner. Vacationers are still heading to Mexico to plunge their toes in the sand and bask in the tropical sun, while taking [...]
A Magical Place called Český Krumlov
BoomerCafé co-founder and publisher David Henderson has travel in his blood. And writing. And photography! In combination, it makes for a worthy piece of guidance about where you can go if, like David, you have the opportunity to strike out and see the world. As David describes it, it’s a magical world to see. We [...]
