Last summer I read a bunch of articles on how to become a travel writer. To be honest, I found it so discouraging. I thought I was a travel writer or at least was almost a travel writer. But according to all of these articles I was doing it wrong. […]
Monthly Archives: May 2013
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I travel a lot. A lot. I traveled for 2 years via bus. I’ve been on a ship for well over 3 years. I love taking trains. And I fly frequently out of necessity. But I had never flown in a helicopter. Until recently. I’ve written before about how Jamaica […]
Sometimes it’s hard to imagine a life beyond ships. A life beyond travel. I have not gone more than 2 months without taking a trip since early 2007. My name is Valerie and I am a travel addict. I often say that working on a ship is not a […]
I know I post mainly about fun things I do off the ship, but I get to do some pretty amazing stuff on the ship too. This is a video of me doing the zipline here on the Allure. Yes, I said zipline. We have a zipline. On a ship. […]
Swimming with dolphins was never on my bucket list. But that’s probably because I don’t really have a bucket list – except skydiving, maybe bungee jumping or cliff diving – anyway… Lots of people say swimming with dolphins is “a once in a lifetime experience.” Why? Did they die immediately […]