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The Norwegian Epic seen from a hill in St. Lucia

January 30, 20229 min read2022

Dateline January 30, 2022, Cruising the Caribbean from Puerto Rico

One of the first cruises after COVID nearly sank the whole industry, which made for a comedy of dos and don'ts: three negative tests just to board, a ship built for forty-two hundred carrying a thousand, and islands where you couldn't step off the boat without a chaperone. From Old San Juan and its great Spanish fort out to St. Thomas, St. Maarten, Antigua, Barbados, St. Lucia, and St. Kitts, with monkeys, a water slide, an America's Cup memory, and a lot of shuttered shops we hope reopen soon.

#Puerto Rico #Norwegian Epic #St. Thomas

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Janice feeding the giraffe, she masked and the giraffe not

United States

August 14, 20203 min read2020

Dateline August 14, 2020, The Columbus Zoo

A morning at the Columbus Zoo, a stop Janice had wanted to make for years, with the polar bears, a giraffe to feed, and the thin, masked crowds of that strange summer. Then the long, hot drive to Raleigh, where our new Toyota picked up right where the Roadtrek left off and lost its air conditioning along the way.

#Columbus Zoo #Ohio #grandchildren

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John and Janice in the masks Marilyn made for the trip

United States

August 7, 20208 min read2020

Dateline August 7, 2020, Indiana Golf

The start of our masked travels, and our first trip by car after selling the Roadtrek. Four days in Indiana at a Golfweek rater retreat, playing the college campus courses, the brand-new Pfau Course at Indiana University, both of Pete Dye's layouts at Purdue, a look at Culver Academy, an afternoon at Swan Lake, and the Warren Course at Notre Dame. A small-world meeting with a fellow old-Spokane golfer along the way, and a toast to Janice's nephew at his alma mater.

#Indiana #college golf #Golfweek

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