My initial impression of cruising as a potential vacation option wasn't a very positive one. I envisioned myself being held captive by the crescendoing waves of an aqueous prison with the ship's captain as the warden. It was as ominous as the doomed band playing on the lido deck while the Titanic sank and those images played over and over...
OUR DEPARTURE: Our flight to Vancouver was scheduled to depart Atlanta at 8 am on March 3, 2006; the reasoning was that it would allow us to have a large part of the day remaining to see Vancouver when we arrived since they are three hours behind us. However, our flight was delayed and we were fortunate enough to be...
Dole Plantation was very interesting as well. There was no shortage of visitors pulling in and out of the large parking lot of this cheerful, yellow building with a brick red roof top. As you arrived, you were quickly greeted by lovely tropical flowers that spelled out the name DOLE in the grass that led you up the walk way...
[flickr album=72157609232545525 num=20 size=Thumbnail] Day One
We departed Atlanta on an 8:40 am flight on Northwest Airlines to SFO via MSP on the morning of May 10, 2005. After a reasonably short layover in Minneapolis, we were on our way to SFO. We’d never been there and were excited about
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