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Cruising With the Real Pirates of the Caribbean

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Entrance to the Pirate Museum of Nassau “Are ye a pirate, sir? Well then, sign aboard,” says the man in the tricorn hat, brandishing a flintlock pistol as he beckons visitors into the Pirates of Nassau Museum. Called “the best pirate attraction in the world” by British pirate historian David Cordingly, the museum in downtown […]

Traveling With Mark Twain in Hawaii

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Waikiki Beach was the Royal Coconut Grove when Twain arrived in 1866. In 1866, Mark Twain was virtually unknown without a single published book. He had bright red hair and he talked and gestured in such an animated way that people meeting him for the first time often thought he was drunk. And then he […]

Rolling and Drinking Beer on New Zealand’s TranzAlpine Express

Rolling and Drinking Beer on New Zealand’s TranzAlpine Express

It’s not the fastest or most luxurious railroad in the world, but the TranzAlpine Express is certainly one of the most scenic. Slicing across the South Island of New Zealand, the 260-km rail line travels from the wild, rocky, glacier-studded West Coast of the island to the pastoral, rolling green hills of the east. In […]

Riding Ferries and Drinking Rum in the Virgin Islands

Riding Ferries and Drinking Rum in the Virgin Islands

The title is a little deceptive, because just about the only place in the Virgin Islands where you can’t drink rum or beer is on the ferries. When you see how these passenger boats pitch and roll on their fast run between islands, you can understand the “no eating or drinking, all passengers must be […]

Drinking Kalik with the Real Pirates of the Caribbean

Drinking Kalik with the Real Pirates of the Caribbean

“Are ye a pirate, sir? Well then, sign aboard,” says Joseph Garvey, brandishing a flintlock pistol as he beckons visitors into the Pirates of Nassau Museum. Called “the best pirate attraction in the world” by British pirate historian David Cordingly, (there can’t be much competition) the museum in downtown Nassau, Bahamas blends some corny Disney-like […]