This past week I was able to travel to Laughlin, Nevada to visit my friends Pat and Lisa, who had traveled from the cold climes of upper Minnesota. We stayed at the Riverside Resort Hotel and began the new year with a visit to this popular destination. Laughlin is situated along the banks of the [...]
Grand Canyon National Park is located in Northern Arizona, approximately 175 miles north of Phoenix. On a recent visit by my daughter to Phoenix, I found she had never seen the Grand Canyon! I had only seen it once before myself. This past December 12, we took off from Deer Valley Airport with Westwind Tours [...]
My Carnival’s Eastern Caribbean Glory Cruise Part 5 After living in Colorado for over 38 years, I find myself often thinking about the friends, places, and scenery there. Waking up on the first morning on the Carnival Glory, look at what was on the morning news! This was a kick. It was 47 in Colorado [...]
Part 5 Cruising on the Carnival’s Glory: St. Thomas Here’s a first hand report on the Rum Shack’s recommended drink, the Painkiller. I had just spent a few hours at the beach on St. Thomas and was heading back to the ship (which you can see in the background) when I found this cool little [...]
Carnival Glory’s Cruise Part 4 You can’t take a cruise without coming back with some stories. Here’s a few I’ll choose to share. First, this cruise became a reality when in thinking about how to celebrate Beth’s graduation from college, there was a consensus that taking a cruise would be a great way to do [...]
From the Glory cruise sailing June 7th – 13th, 2008 – Part 3 Sunrise and sunsets from sea are indescribable, much like those here in Arizona. For me, they are as important on a cruise as the destinations, and I made every effort to see them. Who can watch one without thinking they themselves are [...]
PART 2 The Carnival Glory is part of the largest class of ship in the Carnival fleet. It is 110,000 gross tons. That’s pretty big! The Glory’s statistics are as follows: Length 952 feet (almost a quarter of a mile), beam 116 feet(this is the width at its widest). Passenger capacity is 3,700 with an [...]
