No matter where you’re traveling, it’s so easy to become jaded. Often you’re surrounded by a certain kind of beauty, and you can find yourself saturated and uninterested in taking more in. Should you push yourself to see one more ruined temple in Greece? One more castle in Wales? One more beach in Antigua? You […]

When I tell people that I just got back from a Princess Cruise in Alaska, I usually get two questions — as well as the requisite looks of envy. The first question is: Was Alaska amazing? I say yes, but then they already knew the answer to that one. The second question: What was the […]

I just got back from my Princess Cruisetour to Alaska and I have so much more to write about. I haven't even written about my incredible foray into Denali National Park, where I saw those two bears pictured to the right. Don't they look so cute and cuddly — how can they possibly be dangerous? […]

I discovered my love of totem poles in Ketchikan, Alaska, the third stop on my Coral Princess cruise through Alaska. I wasn’t expecting to see any more anywhere else, unless I went to NYC’s Museum of Natural History. But then we disembarked from the ship in Vancouver and I took a tour, in which the […]

Hey, it's not even midnight yet! It's 11:40pm here in Alaska, and it's pitch dark out one day after Summer Solstice. The Coral Princess is located somewhere between Skagway and Juneau (we left Skagway around 8pm and will arrive in Juneau tomorrow morning at 6am). The photo above was taken yesterday at 11:40pm, when we […]

With blues skies and calm waters, today’s scenic cruising of Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska, on the Coral Princess was spectacular. A park ranger joined us onboard and, in her hypnotically soothing voice, she narrated the highlights of this constantly changing landscape through the PA system.That’s the Margerie Glacier pictured above, and we got to […]