February 13, 2012
How the Other Half Skis: Four Seasons Vail
On the majority of ski trips I’ve been on in the past, we’ve stayed in kitschy 80s-style cabins or big chain hotels or, in the...
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February 8, 2012
Florida Fun: Lazy Days in Fort Lauderdale
Our very last stop on our trip around the world with Semester at Sea wound up being a place with which I am very familiar: Florida. I spent my...
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January 30, 2012
Honduras Hurricane: What to Do When It Rains in Roatan
After Costa Rica, following a day cruising through the Panama Canal, our Semester at Sea voyage made one final stop before docking for good in...
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January 23, 2012
R&R: What to Do in Costa Rica to Unwind
When we were headed toward Central America last month, we originally had planned a little weekend getaway with a handful of our ship friends...
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December 23, 2011
Shanghai At Night: The View from the Fairmont
The whole four days we were in Shanghai, a curtain of cold and gloom hung heavy over the city in an ominous sort of manner. But at night, it...
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December 14, 2011
Rainy Days in Shanghai: Tea Time at the Fairmont
When we landed in Shanghai, the weather was so bad, there was sideways rain and menacing clouds set against brown-gray skies—not the...
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December 8, 2011
Shanghai’s Grand Hotel: A Fairmont with a History
We haven’t stayed in a whole lot of hotels since setting sail with Semester at Sea, primarily because the ship often occupies a better...
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October 10, 2011
South Africa Beach Retreat: Luxury in Langebaan
After we left Yzerfontein, it was another half an hour up the road to our weekend destination. We got off the R27 and headed inland to the...
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September 16, 2011
Scenes from a Moroccan Riad in Marrakech
I spent more than two hours writing a blog post to accompany these photos from our recent visit to Morocco, and when I hit “save”...
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June 6, 2011
Sorrel River Ranch: Luxury in Canyon Country
We’re sleeping in the trailer about 95 percent of this trip. It’s so comfortable, we don’t really need stints in hotel rooms...
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