Two weeks before they’d fly down to New Orleans to meet me, before I’d call a Lyft to carry us to the port, and before we four would skip excitedly onto deck 3 of the Carnival Dream, my 10yo spent a handful of evening hours after a full day of […]
Truth time: I originally didn’t qualify this post with that ‘U.S.’ bit. But then I remembered we once cruised Carnival out of Barcelona, the greatest city on this or any planet. So, ‘Best U.S. Port’ this quickly became. Because I spend faaaaaar too many daytime hours alone farting around on […]
Our Last Road Trip This one was an expensive, drawn-out lesson. It took our two-week, one-way summertime drive from the Carnival Cruise port of Seattle to the driveway of our suburban Philly home to realize what we probably already knew, deep down, but didn’t want to admit. At least the […]
Live jazz music is not the reason one gets themselves to Seattle, pays the extra cash for a balcony room, and cruises up the Inside Passage to Alaska. Hell, not even the succulent filet mignon and creamy sauce béarnaise from the Carnival Legend’s stunning Nouveau Restaurant is why we make […]
There’s a lot of hyperbole on the internet. It’s the very thing driving millions of clicks to websites falsely promising “THE REAL CURE FOR AGING!!” and claiming to answer idiotic hot take questions like, “IS LEBRON THE BEST NBA PLAYER EVER OR A TOTAL FRAUD???” This blog has made its […]
One year ago today we boarded the sparkling, so fresh and so clean clean Carnival Vista in Barcelona. I still vidily remember waking up on that morning. The sun was squeezing its way through the ancient alleyways of the Gothic quarter, casting shadows onto the exposed stone walls of the […]
You might think that the title of this travel blog post makes absolutely no sense but you’d be absolutely incorrect. There IS an easy way to take a couples-only vacation WITH your kids and it makes financial sense to do so too. I explain how to do it and run […]
There’s never a time when I’m not dreaming of traveling to somewhere new and exciting but those dreams come fast and furious, and often become concrete plans, while I am traveling. It’s a super way to pass the time on planes, trains and ships. Hmmmm, where shall we explore next? […]
