“Ladies and Gentlemen,” booms the voice over the PA system. “This is Captain Henk Keijer.” Typically passengers don’t meet the captain of the ship unless they attend a ‘cocktails with the captain’ party toward the end of the cruise. Recently, I had the pleasure of meeting Captain Keijer mid-week on our seven day Alaskan Explorer cruise […]
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Posted by Nancy D. Brown It’s September in Alaska. Summer sunshine has been packed away and winter is making itself known. As our ship, the Ms Westerdam, glides silently through Glacier Bay, I zip my REI Taku Jacket up and slide my hands into the roomy and lined side pockets. This is a jacket designed
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I’ll be honest; when I visited Juneau, I had plans to take a flight seeing tour and land on several glaciers. I was very excited, as I had never walked on a glacier before. But, due to poor weather, my flight didn’t happen. Such is the case often in Alaska – the weather can change
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Posted by Nancy D. Brown Through my travel writing at Uptake, I was invited to do a podcast on my six day road trip to Oregon. Addison Scholand from IAG, a travel and aviation consulting company, interviewed me about “Action and Adventure” in Oregon. The interview is about 16 minutes long and hits on the
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As the mighty Zeppelin descended from the sky, we waited in awe as the airship Eureka hovered several inches above the ground. Moments later 10 passengers, along with a pilot and co-pilot, were onboard and buckled in for a one hour flight over the San Francisco bay area. It seemed fitting that our Co-pilot, Fritz, was from
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One of my favorite travel blogs, intelligent travel, is published by National Geographic Traveler magazine. Intelligent Travel has amazing photography and the editors feature engaging writers. The magazine is celebrating cities in their March issue and they’ve asked readers to share what they like about their town. No surprise, I submitted San Francisco because I
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