Across The World in 80 Days

The Preparation

  It started as a very normal 30 day cruise. No worries there – we felt we could ask our very wonderful neighbors to pick up our mail, and clear our driveway from the inevitable snow. Now it’s going to be 91 days; that changes everything. I...

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The Inspiration

 A long time ago in a land far away In 1962 my parents took the year off from work so we could travel around the world. This was not a world cruise but a series of adventures on planes, trains, automobiles, busses, cable cars, and boats. After...

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Prologue

  With enough effort you can justify anything. When retirement was looking like a possibility, and not just something to dream about in the distant future, I knew exactly what I wanted to do. We would go on a world cruise on Queen Mary 2....

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