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Latitude Rewards Sapphire, Here We Come!

So, I did a thing…put a deposit down on a 7-day Greek Isles trip on Norwegian Gem October 3-10, 2027. It’ll be a triple added Latitude Rewards sailing, so we will be earning 4 points a day. So that makes our point accumulation look like this, based on what we have booked now: Current: 91 … Read more

T minus 1 Week

The grand adventure gets underway one week from this morning! Between now and then No Packing Jenga this time Since we are driving to San Diego rather than flying, we won’t have the Packing Jenga game…where we throw everything into the suitcases to get out of the house, then re-pack in the hotel to make … Read more

Before the Cruise…a tour of Escape

This weekend, I am driving from Wichita to New Orleans to do a ship inspection tour of the Norwegian Escape. She developed engine problems during the summer season which have slowed her down substantially, from max speed just short of 23kts to max speed of 18kts. This caused disruptions on the repo cruise, with ports … Read more

New Cruise Made EASY Site

I don’t normally post about my agency as I want to keep things separate editorially. But if you’re interested to look at it, here’s the new site!

E-Docs: Check!

Woohoo! 21 days till sailing…the midpoint of 6, almost 7, very busy weeks for me!

Well, this is last minute…for us

Combine a planned trip to view several Norwegian Cruise Line ships this fall, a big sale (including travel agent bonuses) and I found myself booking us a Mexican Riviera trip for November! The 15th-22nd, to be exact. The Background For most of this year I have been working on rebranding and actually building my travel … Read more

We’ve Chosen Our 35th Anniversary Cruise

We went to Canada and New England in 2023. You can read about it here: 2023 New England, Canada. We ended up liking it a lot, and we found the Jewel, our Favorite NCL small(er) ship is sailing Quebec City to Philadelphia in September 2026 [itinerary]. So that’s what we’ve decided this time around holds … Read more

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Update on 2024 Cruises

2024 was to have been an exciting year, with our first suite stateroom trip and a mega trip of three back-to-back cruises. Unfortunately, life got in the way.

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