I have been invited to sail on Sea Cloud Spirit for the third time in about a year. This time, it will be an eight-night Caribbean sailing from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to St. Maarten. You know I love being on this luxury three-masted windjammer sailing ship traveling through the Central American Pacific Coast/Panama Canal

Although my passport didn’t expire until December 2025, with my upcoming travel plans (Sea Cloud Spirit – January 24, 2025; Antarctica21—February 14, 2025; and the Goldring Travel 2025 Culinary & Cultural A&K African Safari and Silversea Expedition—March 27, 2025), I knew I would run out of passport pages, especially with all the pages needed on

With the Goldring Travel Culinary & Cultural Journeys in April 2025 and October 2026 sold out, there was a long period without a Culinary & Cultural journey. So, I figured why not find a truly unique itinerary and create another…and boy did I find one! This April 23 – May 4, 2026 Culinary & Cultural

Regent Seven Seas Cruises and Oceania Cruises announced today that they are “embark(ing) on a strong growth phase“, starting with the return of Jason Montague, but not just as the head of Regent Seven Seas, but as the “Chief Luxury Cruise Officer” of both Regent and Oceania. This not only ends the short term of Andrea

Stop The Press! The sailing for Goldring Travel’s 2026 Culinary & Cultural Journey: Borneo & Indonesia on Aurora Expeditions  is technically SOLD OUT. Fortunately, I have a couple of staterooms on hold, but only for a few more days. If you are interested, NOW is the time to book it. OK, now onto my intended

    The expedition travel market…and marketing…has really come forward this past year and the changes seem to be rapid fire!   In September, Lindblad Expeditions repositioned itself by its name taking a backseat to National Geographic. The reason seems obvious on its face: National Geographic has tremendous worldwide brand recognition…even though its famous magazine

It was just announced that Natalya Leahy is leaving Seabourn for a job outside of Carnival Corp. after a decade with the corporation. While I can’t say I know it is another abandonment of Seabourn and Carnival Corp, it sure seems like it. Why do I say that? Because there is yet another shake-up as

After almost two weeks, it was finally time to truly “hit the ice” on my Aurora Expeditions’ Sylvia Earle journey. In a rather curious way, after the Falkland Islands, but even more so, South Georgia, were huge successes despite the weather and seas, arriving in the more “expected” Antarctica brought a feeling of calm and,

My early season Antarctic expedition on Aurora Expedition’s Sylvia Earle continued, and it has had an unexpected but much appreciated personal sense of completion. In my now eight expeditions to Antarctica, I have heard various versions, with various amounts of enthusiasm, about Ernest Shackleton and his epic voyages to Antarctica, the saving of his crew,

Our expedition on Aurora Expeditions’ Sylvia Earle continued in South Georgia. We are fortunate that our Expedition Leader, Ashley, lived on South Georgia for years (even getting married there), so she has a tremendous amount of expertise of, and passion for, this extraordinary area.  With the challenging weather and seas, knowing where we can land