This week, Kate McCue was chosen to become the first American woman to captain a cruise ship for one of the mainstream lines. Next month, she’ll slide behind the wheel (or joystick) of the Celebrity Summit to break yet another gender barrier. That is the ultimate position for a woman on a cruise ship, of… Continue reading Friday File: Women Of The Sea
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Captain McCue, First For U.S. Women
Next month, Kate McCue will become Captain Kate McCue, the first U.S. woman to be the “master” of a major cruise ship. She’ll have climbed to the top of that “mountain” when she guides the Summit…Celebrity’s 14-year-old ship of the same name. The 37-year-old McCue will not be the first female cruise-ship captain (Sweden’s Karin… Continue reading Captain McCue, First For U.S. Women
The Death Of A Sea Salesman
The Orator of the Seas is silent. John Maxtone-Graham, who entertained cruisers with ship stories on whatever line would hire him, died of old age last week. He was 85. We met him once, on the Celebrity Eclipse. It was both our good fortuneand our misfortune … to have met him at all, and to… Continue reading The Death Of A Sea Salesman
Walker Stalker Cruise For Zombies
Even though we’ve never once seen a minute of The Walking Dead on TV, we do have two immediate family members who drove 10 hours so they could run and climb and slip and slide and generally be zombies…or be attacked by them. So we do know a little bit about the world of zombies,… Continue reading Walker Stalker Cruise For Zombies
Friday File: Signs, signs, everywhere…
When you travel on cruise ships, you often encounter signs that have strange, double or hidden meanings. Or maybe they’re just clever, prompting the shutterbugs to snap a few photos. And that’s what we’ve done, for your enjoyment (and ours) this week… This was in Lima, Peru and we didn’t need a Spanish-English dictionary to… Continue reading Friday File: Signs, signs, everywhere…