Last Port of Call: St. Thomas, USVI
January 10, 2020, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands — This was a... a what?... a lack-luster end to an otherwise...
Antigua: Horatio Nelson Slept Here
January 9, 2020, St. John’s, Antigua (and Barbuda)— Say after me: An-tee-ga. And Bar-biew-da. That’s the way the locals pronounce them....
‘Ladies and gents, welcome to Saint Lucia’
January 8, 2020, Castries, Saint Lucia — ‘This paradise is so seductive that the British and French fought over it for 150 years.’ So...
Re-posting this: ‘Skin yuh teet,’ you’re back in the Cari
Thursday update: You may be experiencing a glitch with this post — I know I am — so I’m publishing it again in case that irons out the...
A Day on the River, Part 2: The Rubber Plantation
January 1, 2020, upriver from Manaus, Brazil — The Seringal Felicidade rubber museum is on the bank of the Taruma Mirim Creek. I don’t...
A Day on the River, Part 1: The Village
January 1, 2020, upriver from Manaus, Brazil — On my first world cruise, 2 years ago, I decided that I needed to find more excursions...
1,000 Miles up the Amazon: Manaus
December 31, 2019, Manaus, Brazil — Our final out-bound destination for this cruise. The Portuguese built a fort here in 1669 as...
