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Friday, October 9th, 2009Alaska to Russia 9/16/2009
Despite what former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin might have said to pad her international chops, you can’t see Russia from anywhere in Alaska, certainly not from where I was when I went way out on the Aleutians to cross the Bering Sea. And let’s not even mention the fog. Just because you [...]
Quarantine 1/26 – 1/30 ’09
Thursday, February 5th, 2009Quarantine 1/26 – 1/30 ’09
I finally caught the bug. I’ve been on ships longer than I care to recount, and in recent years I’ve embarked on plenty of ships that had a Norwalk Virus alert, but I’ve always managed to dodge the little guy… Until now. When I boarded the Tahitian Princess in Lima the [...]