The front-page news in yesterday’s edition of USA Today was “Traveling abroad’s top risk: Roads” with a subhead that read “One American dies every 36 hours.” The story is that traffic accidents are the No. 1 killer of healthy Americans traveling abroad…in other words, deaths not attributed to natural causes. There is a (partial) solution.… Continue reading Better Chance to Avoid Dying Abroad
Chasing The Sky's Best Cruise Prices
I’ve spent the last couple of days trying to find the “right deal” on a cruise. I was quite specific about what we were looking for — specific time, specific port, specific ship. Since it’s only a few weeks before that “specific date” it seemed reasonable that I would find a “last-minute deal.” Here were… Continue reading Chasing The Sky's Best Cruise Prices
New Zealand Cruise Economy Benchmark
The first, and biggest, cruise ship to dock in the Port of Lyttelton this season arrived this week. Lyttelton? It’s in New Zealand, in the region known as Canterbury, which means there must be an archbishop there somewhere. It’s just 10 minutes from Christchurch, 35 from Kaiapoi, 44 from Rangiora. It has 3,100 people, a… Continue reading New Zealand Cruise Economy Benchmark
Cruise Ship Coolness Concern to Chile
Our colleague Phil Reimer, whose Ports and Bows columns and blogs are a must-read for cruisers, had an especially interesting commentary on his website yesterday. It was about gambling in international waters. Here’s what he had to say: I was sailing along the coast off Chile about five years ago when all of sudden the… Continue reading Cruise Ship Coolness Concern to Chile
October White Hot Parties in the Pink
On Friday night we went to a high school football game. Many of the players were wearing pink shoes. Online newspapers — the Miami Herald for one — has a pink background on its front page. On yesterday’s football telecast, FOX fashion-plate Terry Bradshaw was wearing a pink tie and hankie. Many NFL players have… Continue reading October White Hot Parties in the Pink