What a lifestyle change that 2020 has been, without travel. Weary of wariness, I am not finished with world travel, but I will carry a mask.
New Zealand’s White Island was the strangest and most exciting tour of my life. It was dangerous, and I was warned by a volcano expert.
Remembering Carnival cruises in Europe, with occasional cultural clashes, naked Russians, buying beer by the bucket at the movies, caught by security with a kitchen knife
For a Clevelander traveling the world, the celebrity status of NBA star LeBron James brings us instant recognition. In Israel, David Blatt always is in the same sentence.
Nearly a week, without possibilities for going ashore, seems a long time to cross the North Atlantic.But days on Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 zip by, if you like a formal life.
Listening to the voice of Jacques Brel on a warm, humid afternoon was one of the highlights of a freighter cruise to the remote islands of French Polynesia on famed Aranui 3
During a recent cruise in Southeast Asia, passengers from Crystal Symphony walked in the woods of Borneo with a headhunter, unintentionally insulted the Sultan of Brunei, and ceremoniously crossed the Equator at sea.
My first trip to Vietnam ended a few weeks shy of 45 years since I was drafted into the US Army during the Vietnam War. As a soldier, I never made it out of the United States. But I will never forget 1968. Last in a series from the ruins and rivers of Southeast Asia
Sixth in a series from the ruins and rivers of Southeast Asia For our last day on the Mekong River, the Avalon Angkor was docked in downtown Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), which was abuzz with people at work, at play and, in between, riding their motorbikes. Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Lots of…
Floating on the Tonle Sap toward Phnom Penh, stopping at ancient sites and visiting villages, passengers on Avalon Angkor begin to get a real picture of life in rural Cambodia.