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Welcome to the Laughing Boomer

Welcome to the laughing boomer website. Here we are, doing what many baby boomers wish to do, and that is traveling the world. We started off two years ago on the 23rd of July 2008.  Our first stops were Panama and then Ecuador where we visited the Amazon and the Galapagos and several other bird-watching sites.  We flew from Ecuador to Brazil where we spent several weeks before moving on to one of our favourite South American countries, Argentina (along with Ecuador).  After a couple of months living there and also visiting Uruguay we flew to Melbourne Australia, where Ken's son and daughter-in-law live and spent around three months there and in New Zealand.  We toured much of New Zealand on a cruise ship.
   

While we were there we booked some serious adventure travel and organized the required visas.  Then it was off to Hong Kong, Macau and Mainland China and on to India, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey over the course of several months.  These were "adventure tours"; they were organized tours but not for the blue-rinse set but had lots of hiking, sleeping in trains, homestays and generally rougher travel.  Our companions were primarily young people.

After a month in Turkey, we sailed to Greece, and then off an a cruise from Rome around the Med. Sea, which took in Monaco, Turkey again, five Greek Islands, Naples and ended in Venice.  From Venice we took a train to Ancona and then an overnight ferry to Split, Croatia where we rented a car for an unforgetable few weeks in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzecovina, Montenegro and Slovenia.  We traveled by train from Llubjana Croatia to Trieste, Italy and then by train to a few more Italian cities before we flew from Milan to Barcelona.  We traveled by car up to France and then toured much of Spain  by car with our friends.

We traveled from Barcelona down to Granada, Valencia and finally Seville, where our friends had to leave us.  We continued on to the coast of Spain and saw Gibraltar and stayed in Marbella before driving back to Seville and then Madrid where we hung out for a few days before flying to Morocco on another Gap tour. We flew from Marakkesh to Marseille France and as we love to do, drove through the south of France for a couple of weeks before dropping the car in Nice and taking the train from Nice to Milan.  We parted ways for a bit in Milan, because my passport was stolen and I had to go to Rome, but Ken carried on to Ireland and then flew to Amsterdam with our friend while I took the train from Rome to Paris and then Amsterdam.  We had a great few days there and rented a car to tour Belgium and then took off for five days to Berlin, an amazing city.  From Berlin we flew back to Madrid for a couple more days before completing the last leg of our round-the-world ticket back to Quito Ecuador, where we started our trip.

We explored the West coast of Ecuador when we were there, looking for a place to stay for a couple of months, but didn't find it there. We flew back to Florida and toured this lovely state for several weeks before going back to Vancouver to visit all our friends and new babies, attend a wedding and get our taxes and credit cards and drivers licenses renewed.  From there it was back to Florida for Brazilian visas, a Caribbean cruise and then a flight to Lisbon where we boarded a cruise ship going to Brazil and stopped at Madiera and the Canary Islands along the way.

After several days in Sao Paulo we arrived, via Montevideo, in Buenos Aires, where we rented an apartment and spent several months.  From B.A. we flew to Chile and saw the Andes and Santiago and Valparaiso before taking another cruise ship up the West coast of South America to Lima, Costa Rica, Jamaica and the Panama Canal and arrived back in Miami.  We rented a car for three weeks and had a marvelous trip up the East Coast, Savannah, Charleston, Richmond, Raleigh, Myrtle Beach, Virginia Beach, Nags Head, Washington DC, and on to New York, where I attended the Book Expo America and Independent Publishers Association convention.  From there we flew to the amazing city of Chicago and then on to Vancouver. 

It's been quite a trip - two years now and we are getting tired of being on the road.  We plan to settle back in Vancouver for at least part of the year and make smaller journeys.

 

 

 

 

The Laughing Boomer Series

Synopsis

  • The Laughing Boomer Series are books and workbooks for baby boomers that provide information and options around retirement.
  • The focus of these books is around possibilities. The media paints a glum picture of retirement and the apparent fact that few people will have enough money.
  • These books regard retirement in a positive light.  It seeks to counter these negative assumptions.
  • By thinking outside society’s “boxes”, we can have a wonderful retirement.
  • People have options about how and where they live.
  • Boomers can now focus on matters important to them, and devises plans to create that reality.
  • In fact, because the restrictions of work and location are removed, boomers can live wonderful lives.
  • With so many options, decision-making skills become paramount.


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