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BRITTANY MAYNARD’S GRAND CANYON

October 28, 2014 by

The Perfect Choice For Her Bucket List, For Every Bucket List. An easy step into history. Layers of ridges, impossible depths.

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BABY BOOMER MISSION CREEP: AIR TRAVEL

October 27, 2014 by

You Know How To Tell Time, So Does The Airport. Air travel asks one thing: Can you be on time? Successful travel is that easy, and that complicated. After an extended road trip in a rental car you don’t want to miss the plane home. Who knows what happens if you miss that flight, but […]

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WINNERS OF THE BOOMPERPDX 500, pt.2

October 23, 2014 by

It starts like all good races, “GENTLEMEN START YOUR ENGINES.” The BoomerPDX 500 starts with directions. “There will be some right turns, there will be some left turns.” That’s more than you can say about the Indy 500. What more is needed? A map helps. Instead of time limits, the BoomerPDX 500 is a finishing […]

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BOOMER TRAVEL: THE ROAD TO UPPER SEDONA

October 17, 2014 by

Or How To Drive A Roundabout Without Sideswiping Half The State. Let’s praise the newest traffic separator sweeping the nation. This British import will be bigger than the Beatles. Not a stop sign, not a traffic light, the roundabout is a two lane puzzle designed to deliver drivers any direction they want. Or just go […]

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BOOMER BUSINESS IN THE TOO REAL WORLD

October 12, 2014 by

Just Another Day On The Job. Doing the right thing isn’t always a celebration, not when it makes someone else wrong, and not when it comes with a cartel warning. Cartel? Someone say cartel? Drug cartel? Early one evening an Arizona property manager picked up the phone. “You’ve got to come down here. The SWAT […]

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BOOMERPDX: LOOKING UNDER THE BLOG HOOD

October 8, 2014 by

Every writer has comments, even the bashful types who never show anyone their work. It’s their internal commenting that keeps them secret, a voice that says, “I suck, this isn’t good enough, why would anyone care about anything I have to say?” Yet they keep writing and putting it away. If that’s what makes you […]

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LOVE IN THE TIME OF TACOMA

October 6, 2014 by

One sure measure of a city on the way up is the people who move there. When the smart crowd shows up, things change. Of course it takes more than intelligence. It also takes commitment and patience. Combine intelligence, commitment, and patience in newly weds who choose to make Tacoma their home, and the fuse […]

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THE ZAC BROWN BAND PLAYS TO BABY BOOMERS?

September 30, 2014 by

Head to a country music concert and what do you get? A Boomer Field Report: It was a Sunday, warmer than most for the time of year in the top left corner of America. The locals weren’t fooled. It was long pants weather, but felt like shorts. The headliner at the Sleep Country Amphitheater in Ridgefield, […]

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AL CAPONE: THE END OF BOOMER STORIES LIKE THIS

September 27, 2014 by

As Told To BoomerPDX. “…My Grandpa was a baker in Chicago, you know, bread and cakes and pastries. “One of his customers had him drive to Cicero to deliver cakes. “The customer was Al Capone. My uncles told me about it at Grandpa’s funeral. “He’d take the cakes in and the gangsters would hand them […]

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WHEN FOREVER YOUNG GOT OLD

September 25, 2014 by

Bob Dylan Knows The Drill   Few poems and song lyrics speak to the baby boomer generation better than Dylan. People listened to his early work and it changed their lives. Why should it stop? Because his later work doesn’t compare to the early days? If that’s the best you’ve got, spin the old vinyl […]

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