This is one of those stories we don’t want to tell, and shouldn’t have to tell, but there is really no choice. It’s about terrorists. You know how your life has changed when boarding planes, with security personnel checking everything but the dirt under your fingernails? You know how when you’re walking the streets of… Continue reading New Threats To Cruise Passengers
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The Vancouver Cruise Experience
If there’s a more beautiful arrival port than Vancouver — this side of Venice — we haven’t seen it. The one time we arrived at the Port of Vancouver, on the Coral Princess, it was breathtaking. Considering that we once lived there, that says something. Breathtaking, until we disembarked. Then, we were out of breath… Continue reading The Vancouver Cruise Experience
Nov. 11: Remembering Audie Murphy
Yesterday was a day for remembering war vets. In Canada, people wear poppies and attend services, and poppy sales were at an all-time high this year. In the U.S., war heroes are celebrated and the never-ending list of people serving in the Armed Services are saluted. People like Audie Murphy. Who's Audie Murphy? There are… Continue reading Nov. 11: Remembering Audie Murphy
New York: 'Hello, Quantum of the Seas'
It was just over a year ago that the world was “introduced” to Quantum of the Seas in New York. The quotation marks are because what those of us who were in Manhattan that day saw was conceptual. Drawings, artistic conceptions, videos and promises by Royal Caribbean CEO Richard Fain that it would be the most technologically… Continue reading New York: 'Hello, Quantum of the Seas'
Holland America's Unique Project
How we have changed. Not many years ago, some of us derided the people wanting to save the planet as idealists who specialized in smoking funny cigarettes. Greenpeace was perceived as nutbars who just wanted 15 minutes of fame. We cut slack for people like Don Henley of The Eagles because we liked his voice… Continue reading Holland America's Unique Project