In one week, I’ll hop on a red-eye flight to Miami and will be en route to Ft. Lauderdale to get on board Princess Cruises’ Crown Princess. I’m joining travel journalists on a seven-day cruise to the Western Caribbean on a hosted trip from Princess Cruises, stopping in Grand Cayman, Roatan (Honduras), Cozumel, and Princess Cays, a private island in the Bahamas.
My friend and I have booked onshore excursions: biking, visiting a turtle farm, and snorkeling in Grand Cayman; hanging out with dolphins and relaxing on the beach in Roatan; exploring Cozumel in a scoot coupe; and finally kayaking in the ocean in the Bahamas. Since this is a Twitter press cruise, I’ll be tweeting about my experiences on these islands — and writing about my favorite excursions and unique and noteworthy places on Trazzler. It will be fun to ditch the city for a week to lounge, sip cocktails, and explore under the Caribbean sun.
If you’re on Twitter, be sure to follow @Trazzler to read trip tweets throughout the week of November 7-14. As appropriate, there may be tweets about the trip on the regional and obsessions accounts, including @Trazzler_Mex (Mexico), @Trazzler_SoFla (South Florida), and @Trazzler_Beach (Beaches).
Look out for this hashtag, too: #FollowMeAtSea
During the trip, I’ll post photos here, on Trazzler, and hopefully on Flickr as well. It all depends on how much time I spend by the pool or at the buffet table…
Stay tuned!
P.S. Many thanks to the folks at Princess Cruises, as well as the Trazzler team, for making this trip happen for me and my guest.
Photo taken at the Classical Chinese Garden in Vancouver, BC.
While Japanese gardens have been a longtime favorite, I’ve gotten more exposed to classical Chinese gardens, too, and the mastery of detail and meticulousness of grounds are equally stunning. Read a bit about Vancouver’s garden, the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, in the city’s Chinatown.
Photo by Graham Raithel.
Ghost towns are pretty spooky. The mining town featured above, in Nevada, reminds me of that horrible movie, The Hills Have Eyes. (No, I’m not a fan of slasher flicks.) It’s desolate and a bit scary, yes. Still, these abandoned towns are a photographer’s dream. Read about Rhyolite.
Always yearning for Montreal — and the spiral staircases of the Plateau.
My piece introducing the proposed Common Core Standards for language arts and mathematics to parents, and what it means for K-12 students, has been published at Education.com and will be featured on the site the week of Oct. 19.
I’m starting to post images on my photoblog again, which I’ve been neglecting for the past several months. Please visit!
“Going Global,” my short article about how parents can promote global citizenship to their kids, is online today, Oct. 12. Click on the link above to check it out.
