After doing 180 miles per hour on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway this week, I ticked off another item on my lifetime Bucket List. I’m not a great fan of motor racing, but this was an opportunity too cool to pass up. Squeezing a passenger into a modified racing car at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The…
Fourth ship in fleet offers new twists Imagine your drawing dancing on a wall A child's makeover fit for a princess The 80-year-old man had not drawn a picture of himself since childhood. That’s what his son said. Animator's Palate on Disney Fantasy Aboard the new Disney Fantasy cruise ship, instructions made it easy: Here’s…
Celebrity Century, a cruise ship that has spent most of its seagoing life in North America, is sailing around Australia and New Zealand this winter (summer in the Southern Hemisphere), getting a taste of what Aussies and Kiwis want to see and do on a cruise ship. The Century is Celebrity’s first major investment into…
The last time I traveled to Australia, in the mid-1980s, I remember being fumigated on the airplane – flight attendants running around the aisles and seats with bug balms, spraying hither and yon – before they let us out, wheezing onto the tarmac in Sydney. After six weeks of a recent trip to Australia and…
Travelers who loved vacationing on the Carnival Paradise, which once was a cruise ship entirely cigarette smoke free among passengers and crew, have reason to cheer. As 2011 draws toward a close, second-hand smoke at sea is dissipating. With this year’s trend toward prohibiting smoking in cabins and in most gathering spots aboard ships, cruise…
When chunks of parmesan grace the buffet lines in bowls the size of washtubs. When dining room tables each burn a red candle for the evening meal. When a multi-cultural group of cabin attendants greets you in the morning with a chorus of “Buon giorno.” Then, you know you are cruising on a Costa ship.…