Canada – Boomeresque

I’ve been doing the Diva’s weekly challenges, but I’ve been “out” a lot lately, so I haven’t shared them here. When I say “out”, I mean “out of the country”. In April, we spen...

https://www.boomeresque.com/zentangle-diva-challenge-263-o-canada-edition/

Canada’s former marketing slogan in the United States was, “Canada: Friendly, Familiar, Foreign and Near”. All are true. Here are some suggestions to help you plan your visit to Canada’s ...

https://www.boomeresque.com/plan-your-visit-to-canadas-capital-region-ottawa-and-gatineau/

If you’re not sure what Zentangle is, start here. As proof it’s still summer (in the northern hemisphere anyway), for this week’s challenge, the Zentangle Diva handed off to a guest Diva, n...

https://www.boomeresque.com/zentangle-diva-challenge-330-oh-canada-edition/

This week, the Zentangle Diva, Laura Harms, asked us to produce a composition using the Moebius Syndrome Awareness Day logo. The Harms’s younger son was born with this very rare congenital ne...

https://www.boomeresque.com/zentangle-diva-challenge-251-moebius-syndrome-awareness-day-edition/

I’m starting to feel a little inadequate. My travel blogger friends are publishing books! Earlier this month, Going Gypsy: One Couple’s Adventure from Empty Nest to No Nest at All hit the s...

https://www.boomeresque.com/montecristo-travels-to-pisa-a-boomeresque-book-review/

(Updated and revised on June 25, 2018.) In June of 2013, I went on a 7 day trip to Ontario, Canada that started with a visit to Toronto for my first ever travel blogger conference; followed by m...

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I’ve always thought that Canada’s old tourism marketing slogan was brilliant.  “Canada:  Friendly, Familiar, Foreign and Near”.  If you’re from Philadelphia as we are, the not “nea...

https://www.boomeresque.com/canadianesque-vancouver-british-columbia/

When I told friends and relatives that I was planning our trip to central Mexico in 2012, the reactions ranged from concern to over-the-top concern.  (Yes, Mom, I’m talking about you.)  It ...

https://www.boomeresque.com/you-might-not-want-to-go-when-were-there/

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...

https://www.boomeresque.com/o-business-class/

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 Anthe...

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