I have read a number of stories and countless twitter posts recently about the the “Haiti cruise ship scandal“. The issue is that here less than one week after Haiti has suffered a major earthquake and while people are still digging out what may total 200,000 bodies, Royal Caribbean is disembarking cruise ship passengers on [...]

The Germans choose modesty over security.
Germany rejects full-body scanners at airports
Germany says it will not introduce much-criticized new full-body scanners at its airports even if their use is approved by the European Union. Interior Ministry spokesman Gabriele Hermani said on Friday that “we won’t join in with this nonsense.” The scanners — which produce [...]

Remember that lovely wedding and honeymoon that you had in the Dominican Republic. Remember how the whole thing came off without a hitch. Well.. that’s the problem… if you are one of more than 200 British and Canadian couples it may in fact have come off without a real marriage.
Investigators have uncovered what they [...]

Last year I wrote about my favorite beach in the world in an article title Favorite Beach – The Baths in Virgin Gorda. I found this video from an episode of the The Map which goes to Virgin Gorda. Skip the first 2 minutes if you must but the trail to the baths is one [...]

The Daily Mail had this picture showing the airport at St Bart’s in the West Indies. I have had some interesting landings on short island runways but nothing like this where passersby actually felt the need to duck as the planes came in.

This journal covers a cruise to Panama on Holland America through Insight / Geek Cruises. The cruise was a Shakespeare cruise done in conjunction with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and a Mac cruise done in conjunction with MacWorld.
Friday November 2, San Jose to Florida
The alarm goes off very early when you are trying to [...]

Visit Curacao (Curaçao) with the Amateur Traveler: This video is from a snorkeling excursion with a snorkeling trip with Bounty Adventures and their sailing sloop the Bounty.
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