My Cruise Around Norway I have one word for Norway: stunning. It’s as if an ocean was dumped into the Colorado Rockies. That’s just about what happened: over the millennia, rivers and glaciers cut canyons through the mountains until the canyons reached the sea, and then the ocean came pouring in, filling the [...]
Guide to the Blue Ridge Parkway – Hiking Trails in Virginia By Nicole Munoz The 469 mile long Blue Ridge Parkway is often said to be the most scenic drive in America. Beginning near Cherokee, NC, the parkway winds through the gorgeous Smokey Mountains and passes through the Pisgah National Forest, as well as the [...]
If you’re an American traveling to a foreign country, one thing that you should not do is to look like a tourist. That is unless you want to be targeted by criminals out to take advantage of tourists or to get sucked into tourist traps. If you want to keep it safe, blend with the [...]
O.K., I have to admit: when I saw Tallinn, Estonia on our ships’ itinerary, I figured it for a fuel stop. Why would anyone want to go to Estonia? And, where is Estonia? I pictured large Baltic women with headscarves and moustaches carrying baskets and screaming at their husbands. That vision couldn’t be further from [...]
Walking down the Creek Street boardwalk in Ketchikan I am terrified. At yesterday’s Port Travel Preview, I learned that in Alaska, it is illegal to push a live moose from a moving airplane. What I want to know is this: have enough moose actually been pushed from airplanes that they had to enact a law [...]
I went to Hans Christian Andersen’s house today. He wasn’t home. No fairy tales for me. Hans lived on a canal in Copenhagen, Denmark. His house is a flat-fronted, three story row house, faced with plaster and painted yellow. The surrounding canals were lined by restaurants with outdoor tables, each branch canal filled with tour [...]
