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Journey of A Lifetime: The Panama Canal
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC “100 Journeys of A Lifetime” puts the Panama Canal at #5! According to NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, “Joining the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, this 50 mile (80 km) engineering marvel is used...
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San Francisco & Panama
Much as I love San Francisco, I’ve decided I am not a city boy any more. Yesterday was a beautiful day in San Francisco, a little fog, certainly not beach weather, but warm enough since San Francisco...
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SF Bay Area Serendipities
One of the great things about travel is stumbling on things you didn’t necessarily expect, good things you didn’t necessarily expect. And it’s one of the surprises of returning to an area you thought...
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The Panama and San Francisco Connection
Visiting The City By The Bay today, it is hard to appreciate the great significance of the Panama Canal for San Francisco. There always was a connection. When gold was discovered in California and the...
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Cuba: Let The Rush Begin!
Carnival’s new fathom Line to Offer Volunteer Cruises in Cuba Carnival Corporation & plc’s newest cruise line — fathom, which specializes in voluntourism — will offer cruises to Cuba starting in...
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The Artist Freyzer
Seven years ago my first contract with Princess was on the former ROYAL PRINCESS, the small “R-class” ship since shoved down the line and now scheduled to sail for Carnival’s new fathom Cruises,...
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We Interrupt This Program for A Special Report from Galapagos
As I mentioned in an earlier post, my daughter, Rebecca Detrich, was honored to be one of 35 educators selected to be 2915 National Geographic Teacher Fellows, who, in cooperation with Lindblad...
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Cuba Cruise: Everything You Imagined and More!
The “forbidden” destination for US Americans. The old house down the street about whom the kids shared scary tales. The tiny little island that was supposed to take over the world for Communism,...
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Cuba Car Show
Want to see old US cars? Come to Cuba! You won’t be disappointed. Cars from the 50’s and even earlier are still on the streets, still running thanks to Cuban ingenuity. Some are old, just held together...
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Cruising to Cuba
Thanks to President Obama US citizens can visit Cuba on cruises offering a people-to-people educational itinerary. Hopefully as President Trump works down the list, attempting apparently to undo...
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