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Bogotá:
Liz and John
fly to Bogotá, Colombia to meet Esmeralda and her family. We tour
the country for two weeks
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Inside Passage:
Ellen Beckmann
joins Liz and me for a cruise on
Queen of the North
up the Inside Passage between Port
Hardy and Prince Rupert, British Columbia. We drove from Lakewood,
WA to Vancouver and then took the ferry to Vancouver Island. Then we
drove another 400 kilometers to Port Hardy. Then next day we sailed
into a beautiful Canadian Sunset... at midnight |
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Western Caribbean:
Tina and Roger
Gress join us on
Norwegian Dream
cruise of the Western Caribbean |
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Southern Caribbean:
Tina and Roger
Gress join us on the
ms Veendamm
cruise of the Southern
Caribbean |
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Mexican Riviera:
The
Norwegian Star
Star
sails to Manzanillo, Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlán, and Cabo San Lucas |
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The Sea of Cortés:
Holland America offers a cruise to the Sea of Cortés on the
ms Ryndamm which
includes an 18 hour excursion to Mexico's Copper Canyon
(by
way of Topolobampo). An offer too good to refuse. As a further bonus
we also sailed to Cabo San
Lucas, Loreto, Pichilingue (La
Paz), Mazatlán, and Puerto Vallarta |
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Reunion?
We're Not In Kansas Anymore:
We scheduled a short cruise to
Key West and Cozumel on
Carnival Imagination
before our longer trip through the Panama Canal
next month |
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Sailing the Ditch:
Tina and Roger Gress join Liz and
John as we sail on
ms Westerdam
from
Seattle to Ft. Lauderdale by way of the Panama Canal |
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Fin del Mundo: Tina and Roger Gress
join Liz and John on the
Norwegian Sun as we sail from Buenos Aires
around Cape Horn to the Panama Canal and then to Miami, FL |
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Victoria, BC: With
each of our birthdays within two weeks of Christmas Liz, Mark, and I chose to
celebrate our special days and the holiday with a trip to Victoria,
BC |
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Caribbean (Western):
Part One of a back-to-back cruise on
Carnival Glory to Cozumel,
Belize, Honduras, and then wave at the Cayman Islands as we sailed
past and avoided high-wind interruption of the ship's tenders |
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Caribbean (Eastern):
Part Two of a back-to-back cruise on
Carnival Glory to Nassau,
Bahamas; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos |
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Rio de Janeiro:
We fly to Buenos Aires to join
Azamara Journey on a holiday cruise to Uruguay and Brazil
and view the New Year's Eve fireworks display off Copacabana Beach
in Rio |
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A series of letters, photos, and trip reports written to describe Liz and John Schuck's family adventures in the Americas, Asia, Australia, Europe and the United States. |