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Anchors Away! My New Full-Time Job at Cruise Critic

Chris — Fri, 17 May 2013 07:16:32 +0000

As we sat on our ship’s outside veranda, passing the wooden homes and onion-domed churches of the Russian countryside along the Volga River, my husband let out a happy sigh. “I LIKE cruising,” he declared, taking another sip from his wine. Well, that’s a good thing. Because I’m thrilled to announce that as of July [...]

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March 2013 Desktop Calendar Wallpaper: Half Moon Caye, Belize

Chris — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 19:29:54 +0000

This is the March 2013 offering for our desktop calendar series - always free and available for iPad too! Get your March 2013 Desktop Calendar Wallpaper! I took this photo at Half Moon Caye, a natural monument located at the southern end of the Lighthouse Reef atoll in Belize. You couldn’t ask for a better desert island than this: [...]

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February 2013 Desktop Calendar Wallpaper: Water Lily Pond, Hawaii

Don Faust — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:45:42 +0000

This is the February 2013 offering for our desktop calendar series - always free and available for iPad too! Get your February 2013 Desktop Calendar Wallpaper! I took this photo of a water lily pond at the Four Seasons Resort at Manele Bay. We were on Lanai because Chris had been invited to participate in the island’s inaugural New [...]

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2013 Travel Trends, from ETC ’13

Chris — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 11:02:41 +0000

I spent this weekend at the annual conference put on by the Educational Travel Community (ETC), a place where tour operators and destinations can connect with universities and other entities that offer learning vacations for their alumni. If you’re like me, you’ve probably seen trips like this advertised in the back of your alumni magazine. This conference [...]

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January 2013 Desktop Calendar Wallpaper: Pacific Rim National Park

Chris — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 04:08:35 +0000

Happy 2013! We’ve decided to continue our free desktop calendar series for another year. It gives my husband Don a chance to show off the wonderful photography that he does in his spare time (and my shots aren’t so bad either). Get your January 2013 Desktop Calendar Wallpaper! We took this photo, from the Rainforest hiking [...]

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2012 in Review: Biggest Surprise (Belgrade!)

Chris — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 06:03:44 +0000

In the age of instant info, it can be hard to be truly surprised when you visit a city for the first time. Chances are, someone has already blogged, tweeted or Facebooked their favorite spots – and that’s just within your social networks. Never mind all the tips and tricks and photos that appear on [...]

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2012 in Review: Worst Experience

Chris — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 21:28:22 +0000

Looking back on my 2012 travels, I feel fortunate. Very few problems cropped up on my 132 nights on the road, certainly nothing as bad as my husband getting pickpocketed in 2009, the Mexican projectile vomiting episode from 2010 or the New Zealand flight from hell last year. So now it’s down to nit-picking. I missed [...]

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2012 in Review: Travel Lessons Learned

Chris — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 18:32:27 +0000

The week between Christmas and New Year’s always feels like one of reflection. It’s when I think about what went right and wrong during the year, and try to figure out what’s on tap for the future.While I’m not a huge resolution person – I’ve found that as soon as you write a plan, life has [...]

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Photo Friday: Christmas Tree at Heidelberg Castle, Germany

Chris — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 21:19:23 +0000

This is the latest in a series of travel photos inspired by #FriFotos on Twitter. The theme of this week’s Photo Friday is FESTIVE. I’ve recently returned from a Christmas Market cruise on the Rhine, traveling on the Viking Aegir. I’ll be writing a review of the ship for the website Onboard – one of my [...]

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December 2012 Desktop Calendar Wallpaper: Franz Josef Glacier Walk

Chris — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 06:58:38 +0000

This is the December 2012 offering for our desktop calendar series - always free and available for iPad too! Get your December 2012 Desktop Calendar Wallpaper! This photo was taken in November 2011, during our RV trip around the South Island of New Zealand. I’m not a cold weather fan – too many winters in Minnesota burned the [...]

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