Category: Travel
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Virtual plane spotting
Are you a plane spotter? I’ll never be enough of one to park myself just outside the fence of a local airport to watch them takeoff and land. But watching these metal behemoths landing and taking off with such regularity virtually is a bit mesmerizing, and enough to keep me watching various plane spotting channels […]
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2021 cruising report
So we’re out here in what is still known by some as the West Indies. More specifically, we’re in the leeward islands of the West Indies, one of the few places in the Caribbean we haven’t hit before on a cruise ship. This is our fourth consecutive trip with Holland America, but our first cruise […]
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Traveling in the age of covid (part two)
Time to get this vacation thing on! But boy, it’s sure a hassle. We’re on a cruise out of Fort Lauderdale today and getting on the ship is like running a marathon. It’s also become more expensive. It’s hard to quantify the additional expense as certain things, like WiFi, are now part of the fare. […]
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Nantucket
When you are married, unless you are a traveling salesman you don’t tend to travel alone. But on rare occasions I do travel alone. Today I spent my second day traveling alone in Nantucket, a spit of land about twenty miles long off Cape Cod. My wife has a gaggle of far flung girlfriends taking […]
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The news from Newport News
My blogging has been delayed by an overdue family reunion. Months in the planning, all but one of my siblings and most of our spouses met in southern Virginia, our first get together since my father’s funeral in 2016. We chose what turned out to be a beautiful but eclectic rental house on the James […]
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Traveling in the age of covid
We’re leaving New York City after three days of playing tourist. It’s my first trip away from home since the pandemic began. It’s been interesting to see how much has changed for tourists in the age of covid, which turns out to be quite a lot. In NYC there are definitely privileges associated with being […]
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The long term impact of COVID-19
Aboard the M.S. Nieuw Amsterdam, off Hispanola, May 11, 2020 We JoCo Cruisers don’t seem to be too upset about the coronavirus thing, here on Day 5 of our cruise. We have more pressing things to do, which is basically to nerd out with fellow nerds, something they don’t get to do much of once […]
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Cruising in the midst of a coronavirus panic and economic upheaval
Aboard the M.S. Nieuw Amsterdam, off Haiti, March 9, 2020 Markets are plunging and authorities are pleading for people not to get on cruise ships. So of course we are on a cruise ship. We merrily set sail on Saturday along with close to a dozen other cruise ships out of Fort Lauderdale. We’re on […]
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Expect a recession
A recession is coming. It’s probably already here; we just can’t prove it yet. The trigger was the emergence of the coronavirus and the resulting COVID-19 disease in late 2019 in China, but if it hadn’t happened it would have likely happened later in the year anyhow. As predicted it’s spreading all over the globe. […]
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