Since I was a newborn, I had the pleasure of traveling with my parents. They enjoyed visiting all parts of Chile, whether it was the countryside, the mountains, or the beaches. We traveled by bus, train, and boat to any location where we could learn more about our long and diverse nation. I then had […]

This was another long cruise. The “28-Day Indonesian Discovery & Far East Discovery Collector” by Holland America. Our ship was the MS Volendam. It would start in Singapore and ended in Hong Kong. The best prices we could get for flying to Singapore were with Emirate Airlines and, to our delight, it included a stay […]

2009 Karelin and I had not been in Mexico by land. I had been in Mexico for work-related reasons on many occasions. I was in Matamoros, Mexico City the capital, in Cuernavaca south of Mexico City and Acapulco on the Pacific side; Tuxtla Gutierrez, San Cristobal de las Casas, Chamula, in Chiapas in the South […]

We did not know until the end of 2018 that Holland America Line had begun offering cruises to Cuba in December 2017. The cruise itineraries included extended calls in Havana and a visit to Cienfuegos, along with other Caribbean destinations. The first Cuba cruise was a 12-day holiday sailing that started on December 22, 2017. […]

This cruise with Holland America was entitled “15 days North Pacific Crossing”. It was a transpacific cruise going from Tokyo, Japan to Vancouver, Canada. The dates were from April 25 to May 9, 2018, and the ship was the MS Volendam. We wanted to at least see a bit of Japan so we flew with […]

These are six cruises plus one visit to Puerto Rico which was not a cruise. 2009 Puerto Rico Our first trip to the Caribbean was in 2009. This was not a Cruise, just a vacation on an Island we wanted very much to know: Puerto Rico. We were there from November 21 to 26. Puerto […]

So far, my friend Karelin and I have done close to 60 land tours, 16 Ocean Cruises with Holland America, 8 with other Cruise lines – Carnival, Norwegian, Caribbean Cruise Line, Cruise & Maritime Voyages, and Celebrity, 10 River Cruises with – AMA Waterways, Viking, Avalon, Vodohod (Russia), American Queen Cruises, and American Cruise Lines. […]

2008 Without counting the trip we did with our Travel Club in 2015 and the time Karelin was in Chile at the end of our cruise to South America in 2007, Karelin and I have done four more trips to Chile. The first of these trips was in 2008. Karelin said that she really wanted […]

Members of the “The Summit Travel Club” got enthusiastic with our presentations about our different trips to Chile and they asked us if we could put together a trip for them. It was plenty of research, but I managed to contact three different companies that agreed to provide an estimate for a trip to Chile […]

It was 1987 and I had to go to Scotland to present a paper at the International Conference on Technology and Education. I decided that this was the best opportunity to take my parents to Europe. It had been in my plans for a while and, if I took my vacation days after the conference, […]