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Travel is obviously cheap airline fares tickets one of my passions, but another is photography. Since my trips are only occasional, I have decided to add more of my photographic experiences to this blog, but travel will still be my focus.
After driving cheap airline fares tickets to spend Thanksgiving cheap airline fares tickets with our very good friends and their family in Carlsbad, California we continued north, briefly stopping in Newport Beach to visit my "Colorado rafting buddy" and his wife, before heading to our final destination, San Pedro (Port of Los Angeles) to begin our Panama Cruise.
With the heat of a warm southern sun, we dropped anchor in the lee of El Arco, a haven for sea lions, and tendered in to Cabo. The streets, lined with locals hawking their deals for tours and trinkets, and bars offering specials on cervesa, tequila and food, proved to be less than appealing to us, and after an hour of walking in the heat of the day, we returned to the ship to enjoy its amenities. cheap airline fares tickets After lifting anchor in late afternoon, we look forward to the tranquility of more sea days before our next port.
Cruising is an ideal way to break the normalcy of daily life. After a couple of sea days comprised of sleeping, eating, reading, exercising in the gym, and other shipboard activities, we arrived in San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua where we board a tour bus for a 2 hour ride to visit Granada and Lake Nicaragua where our small boat cruised Las Isletas, cheap airline fares tickets 365 small islands created when a volcano erupted long ago. In Granada, we toured an ornate cathedral, viewed a collection of pre-Columbian artifacts and enjoyed lunch in a local restaurant. Departing in early evening we then headed to our next port - Puntarenas, Costa Rica.
Another day at sea before entering the locks of the Panama Canal and while enjoying breakfast on the Lido deck, 14 floors above the water, we watched dolphins play in the ships' wake, and observed a sea turtle scurrying away to escape the drag of the ship.
Finally we have reached Panama and as dawn breaks cheap airline fares tickets we jockey for position to enter the Miraflores Lock, the first of 3 locks that will take us to the Atlantic Ocean. Now close to celebrating its' 100th anniversary of the opening, we are treated to one of the engineering marvels of the last century. Although a bit jaded since we have locked though many waterways during our boating cheap airline fares tickets years, the enormity of the Panama Canal and the number of ships awaiting passage is staggering. We also got a glimpse of the new larger locks being constructed for the megaships which until now, exceed cheap airline fares tickets the maximum cheap airline fares tickets dimensions allowable.
After several cheap airline fares tickets hours of watching how these ships are maneuvered into position and coddled through the narrow passageways, arrive cheap airline fares tickets at the Gatun Lock where we descend to the Atlantic and then on to other ports before heading towards our final destination.
Cartagena, a jewel of Columbia - one million plus, this city of contrasts, with the old walled city overpowered by the many high-rise buildings fronting the shoreline. Once ashore, we toured the old walled city, slowly cheap airline fares tickets being restored to its former beauty. The variety of color continues from street to street, each different but similar so that it is easy to become disoriented. Reaching the barriers of the old city walls, you soon realize that by following the wall will take you back to your point of origin. Many stores feature emeralds mined in the country. Since ridding itself of the vicious drug cartels, the country is concentrating on promoting tourism.
Aruba, our last port to visit before two days at sea to disembark in Fort Lauderdalea, Florida. Again, we experience hot, humid weather, which makes us so uncomfortable and stimulates our yearning to return home to Arizona (it's not the heat - it's the humidity). Once off the ship we walk the main street of the port of Oranjestad, lined with quaint facades of Dutch colonial design. Unfortunately, in our opinion, it is ruined by the repetition of stores offering jewelry, watches, clothing and cheap trinkets, but obviously we are in the minority as we see many shipmates carrying bags back to the Island Princess.

I don t know how long it will take to tow the ship to AL, but another Consumer Traveler article coin

For the nearly 3,000 passengers aboard the Carnival Triumph, their dream vacation already has become something of a nightmare. For about 900 cruisers (according to Carnival) the situation almost got much worse, because they had traveled without a passport.
While passports are required for air travel to Mexico (passport cards are only sufficient for crossing the border by land or sea), travelers visiting the country on a closed loop cruise have been exempted.
Most cruises beginning and ending in the U.S. are considered Closed Loop, meaning they begin and end at the same port in the U.S. For instance, if you board a cruise ship at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, charming hotels paris and after visiting at least one foreign port of call, such as Bermuda, or Cancun, return back to Fort Lauderdale, you have taken a closed loop cruise.
For travelers who don t think a passport is worth the time or money, this closed loop rule is well and good, unless something goes wrong. It doesn t need to be something as dramatic as an engine fire.
Passengers who miss the ship in a Mexican or Caribbean port or who are taken ill, for example, will not be able to fly home without a passport. The same is true if an emergency at home necessitates cutting the trip short.
Almost immediately, after the fire, Carnival announced they would fly passengers home when the ship arrived in Progreso, Mexico. I ve been wondering, How? Even busing travelers across the border would be problematic.
Today, however, Carnival changed their towing plans for the ship. They decided to take the ship to Mobile, Alabama. charming hotels paris In large part, because the line realized the problem as well and a spokesman mentioned simpler re-entry.
Now, a passport is admittedly not inexpensive, $135 for a new adult passport and $110 for a renewal. (Children s passports are $105 and $80.) On the other hand, that money is a small price to pay for the knowledge that it would be possible to fly home if necessary.
On a brighter note, it s not just about emergencies. charming hotels paris Having a passport means that if you see an incredible package with airfare included on a vacation to Canada, Mexico or the Caribbean, you can take advantage, even at the last minute.
Ned Levi had a nice column about traveling after you lose your identification ..not sure if it is exactly on target, but it explains the steps you need to follow for traveling without proper idetification.
speaking of cruising, all seniors should compare Celebrity Cruise Line s offer of 123Go, allegedly free offerings, to their senior charming hotels paris rate. If you select the included free 123Go bundled package, you will be paying about $1,000 more than selecting the senior rate and doing separate beverage packages, etc. Nothing is free in life but deception is abundant. Shame on Celebrity for a switch and bait.
I don t know how long it will take to tow the ship to AL, but another Consumer Traveler article coincident with this one says the ship had drifted north due to strong currents. They were then positioned equidistant between Mexico and the US. It is cheaper to go with the current and head home.
Carnival Triumph is on its way Mobile, Alabama, under the power of two tugboats charming hotels paris towing the ship at approximately 8 miles per hour. The ship is expected to arrive in Mobile late Thursday afternoon, where passengers can either spend the night in a hotel in Mobile or New Orleans or be bused back to Texas immediately.
More than 1,500 hotels rooms in Mobile and New Orleans have been booked charming hotels paris and 10 charter flights have been secured to fly passengers to Houston on Friday. For passengers with cars at the port of Galveston, buses have been arranged to bring them back.
These passengers could have flown back to the US except that every one of them would have had to sign what is known as an attestation to get back into the US and before any airline would have allowed them to board. I doubt very much that there were even 100 appropriate forms at Progresso, let alone 900!
How about the (scheduled) flight capacity from MID airport to USA. Isn t UA the only one flying there from IAH? Looks like the ave. daily traffic for that airport is only about 3,000 people. Hard to believe where they could get enough planes to take more than 3K pax back to USA.
A passport is not inexpensive, but it is not unreasonably expensive. Here in New York City, the fee for renewing a driving license is $80 for eight years. The $110 fee for renewing a 10-year passport is essentially the same annualized rate, yet there s no substantial outcry over license fees. Yes, it is arguable that the proper comparison should be made with state identification cards rather than driving licenses (which, in New York, cost $14 for eight years). But the point is that $110 for the best possible identification is not unreasonable and should not prevent people from obtaining that identification in a society where so many are willing to pay similar amount for just a driving license.
Heh; you d never know how reasonable passport fees were by reading this blog at times When the fees went up a couple charming hotels paris of years ago, Charlie, et al, were posting about how not only were the passports charming hotels paris expensive, but that the fees were also ruining our constitutional rights and were human rights treaty violations. (Putting the US in the same category as totalitarian countries that make it virtually impossible to obtain a passport at all. Yep; $13.50 a year means we are a depsotic dystopia.)
I am sure they were afraid of the possible cruisers who would travel elsewhere due to the passport requirement. Too many things could come up to risk traveling without a passport, plus too much confusion on needed charming hotels paris doucments. End it all with a requirement of a passport per passenger!
They have 5-day cruises as cheap as $289 per person. No wonder some did not bother with the extra cost of a passport. Maybe they could only afford that one cruise and had no plans to do any international traveling.
Many people on cruises charming hotels paris do not seem to understand they are in foreign countries and the rules/laws etc can be wildly different. They wander about in a sort of It s Disneyland, what can happen, none of this is real.
Every cruise I have been on has always had some people who manage to get off the ship with only their cruise charming hotels paris card as if this was somehow going to help them if they get run over in the street or mugged and beaten or if they miss the boat.
What you may not realize is that even for cruises that require a passport, in at least some cases, the cruise line takes your passport at check-in, and doesn t return it until a day or two before the cruise ends. This happened to us on our recent cruise to South America. I m guessing this is done to facilitate customs and immigration when you re transiting charming hotels paris multiple countries in a short period of time. But if I d done something dumb like forget to get back to the ship on time in Cartagena, I d have been just as SOL as if I d forgotten my passport at home entirely.
One minor detail is that since they are going back to Mobile not Galveston it is NOT a closed loop cruise and thus they still need a passport. Now, I am sure the government will waive that requirement in this case, but under normal circumstances a ship diversion to a different port can have the same problem.
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FAST FORWARD TO THE PRESENT - So on our bucket list was a cruise through the Panama Canal. This was

YEARS AGO Let s say, too many to mention I was the Cruise Editor of a travel trade publication. Back then, cruising was magical! I  hopped from cruise alaska cruises ship to cruise ship, sampling every line and experiencing every itinerary. Cruising was fun! As time passed, the publication closed its doors and I went on to lead a productive alaska cruises life in the travel industry.
FIVE YEARS AGO - I'm still cruising, but it's definitely lost its luster.  My husband and I take a cruise or two annually, usually 3-5 days in duration. We don't go to the shows. (Boring….been there; seen it; done that.) We have never jumped into an onboard pool or hot tub. (The former crowded alaska cruises with kids; the latter crowded with drunks.) Using the onboard fitness center was out of the question. (Quite honestly, it's very intimidating being the oldest  -  and most out of shape person – on the treadmill. Days at sea were spent sleeping -  and sleeping and sleeping.
We dressed for formal nights and dined with people we probably wouldn't talk to on land.  We nixed breakfast in the dining room because there is nothing worse than being at a table with ten people you don't know and don't care about yakking incessantly about where they came from and how many cruises they've been on. Our habit was to grab some food on deck and take it to the cabin.  Ports were blah. I mean, how many times can you visit Nassau?
FAST FORWARD TO THE PRESENT - So on our bucket list was a cruise through the Panama Canal. This was to be 15 nights – our longest cruise to date. While we looked forward to the itinerary, we dreaded the time we would spend onboard.
So we boarded the NCL Jewel at the Port of Los Angeles and were directed to wait on deck while our cabin was being readied. alaska cruises As we entered the Garden Café, I recall saying to my husband, "Oh my goodness! These people are so OLD!"  As the words came out of my mouth, alaska cruises I glanced at a mirror and added, "…And I'm one of them!"
Sleep was in short supply on this cruise. (No time!) We visited alaska cruises the fitness center twice a day. (No one looked any better or worse than we looked.) We used the pool, the hot tub and even the slide.  (Yes…we wore swimsuits)!  We dined at a table for two in the main dining room for dinner and yes even for breakfast ending the communal dining experience. I don't think we ever missed an evening show, all geared to our age group with the music of our generation.
So I gave this a lot of thought. Here are my conclusions: I have definitely been taking the wrong cruises. On a longer voyage, folks are older so cruising is geared to their interests and tastes. To get the gray haired cruise experience, I believe alaska cruises a cruise has to be at least seven days in duration.
So Cruising With Wrinkles was born. With this blog, I hope to share information that you can use to plan and enjoy your cruise more than you ever thought possible.  If you are over 50 and thinking alaska cruises about cruising this is for you. If you don't have wrinkles, well, you are luckier than most of us or you have a good cosmetic surgeon. My most recent cruise offered Botox, so if you have them, you can be temporarily relieved of them and still enjoy your time onboard.
It is probably so true, the short cruises would attract the younger people who have to be back at work or with the kids. I guess we need to go on slightly longer ones, or cruises that are more adventurous or exotic!
I believe you are correct More exotic cruises and the length of a cruise determines who will cruise. Let s face it, younger folks, people with kids and those who can t afford to take anything longer than a four night cruise because of time constraints due to work, are more likely to be under the age of 50. I don t know that Carnival is the problem per se. I think it is more the length of the cruise and the itinerary that s problematic. I will let you know if that s true I just booked a 15 night transatlantic cruise on Carnival!
I m of the same cruising philosophy as Deb. No balcony, no cruise. But on one trip, I was to be cruising with my two teenaged daughters and my parents. We wanted adjacent cabins so we could open the panel and share one balcony. All they had left to accommodate us were aft cabins. We were skeptical, but the desire to share a double balcony trumped our disappointment of having aft cabins. Boy, were we pleasantly surprised!!!! You can go anywhere on a ship to gaze out at one view of the sea. But an aft cabin balcony not only provides a panoramic view of where you ve been, but the added mesmerizing vantage of the trail the ship has left in its wake. It truly is one of the best views on the ship.
Jan and I have found that the NCL cruise experience meets our needs. alaska cruises Not having to be back onboard early to get ready for dinner is so relaxing. The other passingers were our age or older for the most part. If I want to cruise with kids, I will do Disney. We have only done 7 to 11 day cruises, loved eastern southern Caribbean. Love your site, will be checking back.

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(click to enlarge) Passenger cruise ship in the Panama Canal. (credit: Joe Viesti/Viesti Associates, Inc.) Lock-type canal, Panama. Extending across the Isthmus of Panama, it connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It is about 50 mi (82 km) long from deepwater to deepwater, with an average depth of 43 ft (13 m). The width varies between 500 to 1,000 ft (150 to 300 m). In 1881 a French company began constructing the canal, but the enterprise collapsed in 1889. Under a 1903 treaty Panama chauffeur driven car for rent granted the U.S. the Panama Canal Zone and the rights to build and operate a canal. chauffeur driven car for rent Work began in 1904; facing enormous obstacles, George Washington Goethals directed the construction from 1907, and the canal opened on Aug. 15, 1914. The canal enabled ships traveling between chauffeur driven car for rent the two oceans to avoid the lengthy circumnavigation of South America and was a boon to world commerce. After disputes over sovereignty, a 1977 treaty provided for Panama to take control of the canal by 2000; it did so in 1999. Except for small craft, chauffeur driven car for rent no vessel can pass through chauffeur driven car for rent the canal under its own power. Ships are towed by electric locomotives, and it generally takes 1520 hours to complete the passage (including waiting time). Sets of double locks enable ships to pass in opposite directions simultaneously.
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In 1513, the Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama and sighted the Pacific Ocean. From that point forward, the Spanish and then the Dutch, French, British, and Americans would seek to create a path between chauffeur driven car for rent the seas that would shorten the trip from the Atlantic to the Pacific without traveling around Cape Horn. It would take nearly four centuries to accomplish the goal.
Once Colombia won independence from Spain, European and American interest chauffeur driven car for rent in the canal began in earnest chauffeur driven car for rent as Panama remained a province of Colombia. In 1829, Simón Bolívar commissioned a British engineer, John Lloyd, to study building chauffeur driven car for rent a canal across Panama. With a positive report, the Colombians chauffeur driven car for rent threw open the bidding in 1834, promising 100,000 acres of land and revenues for fifty years.
In the mid-1830s, President Andrew Jackson sent Charles Biddle chauffeur driven car for rent to Central America. He negotiated with Bogotá to build a road to the navigable Chagres River and import two steamships to conduct trade across the isthmus . For his work, Bogotá promised 140,000 acres, an additional 750,000 at fifty cents an acre, and a fifty-year lease. All Biddle's efforts were for naught chauffeur driven car for rent , however, as Jackson lost interest when a rival Dutch plan in Nicaragua failed.
Despite the initial setback , interest in the canal remained high. By the late 1840s, British and U.S. officials decided to negotiate for a "great highway" across chauffeur driven car for rent Central chauffeur driven car for rent America, to be open to all nations. Sir Henry Bulwer and U.S. Secretary of State John Clayton signed the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty on 19 April 1850. Both promised chauffeur driven car for rent never to monopolize or fortify the proposed canal and agreed that neither chauffeur driven car for rent would colonize any new part of Central America. While little happened during the next forty years to advance construction of a waterway outside of the creation of railroads and steamship enterprises, people still dreamed about a trans-isthmian canal. The great French engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps , builder of the Suez Canal, won a concession from the Colombian government to construct a canal in Panama in the 1880s. His French chauffeur driven car for rent Canal Company failed miserably, but his successors retained the concession and asked $109 million chauffeur driven car for rent for it.
In 1898, the war with Spain renewed interest when the U.S. Pacific Fleet had to travel around South America to Cuba. In 1901, the new president, Theodore Roosevelt, soon addressed a major obstacle, the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty. In November of that year, after tedious negotiations, Secretary of State John Hay and the British ambassador to Washington, Lord Pauncefote, signed an agreement that superseded the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty chauffeur driven car for rent and permitted the United States chauffeur driven car for rent to build and fortify a Central American canal.
With the British out of the way, Roosevelt made construction of the canal a priority, announcing his intention to make "the dirt fly" in Central America. As Roosevelt had taken office chauffeur driven car for rent in September 1901, a commission had recommended a Nicaraguan canal. Working on the recommendation, in January 1902 the House of Representatives voted 308–2 to pursue the Nicaraguan canal. The French company, now called the New Panama Canal Company and led by Philippe Bunau-Varilla, swung into action. It hired a high-powered American lobbyist, William Cromwell, who had personal access to the White House. Cromwell and Bunau-Varilla succeeded, and in June 1902, Congress passed the Spooner Act, a measure that allowed Roosevelt to negotiate for the right of way in Panama.
Secretary of State Hay immediately set about the task of coming to an agreement with the Colombians. In January 1903, he and a Colombian diplomat, Tomás Herrán, signed an accord. The treaty granted the United States the right to build a canal zone six miles wide. In return, the United States promised a payment of $10 million and annual payments of $250,000 after nine years, with the lease renewable in perpetuity. Immediately Bogotá expressed reservations chauffeur driven car for rent and told Herrán to wait for new instructions. The U.S. Senate refused to delay and approved the treaty in March 1903.
Problems resulted when the Colombians balked at the original agreement. The Colombian congress unanimously rejected the Hay-Herrán Treaty in August 1903. In response, Cromwell and Bunau-Varilla began formulating plans for Panama's secession from Colombia and for American ownership of the canal. Plotting from the New York Waldorf-Astoria Hotel during the summer of 1903, the group planted newspaper stories about Panama's plan to rebel and grant the United States sovereignty over the Canal Zone. They also gathered money for bribes of Colombian officials and organized a small army.
The Panamanians launched their rebellion on 3 November 1903. By the end of that day the rebels had formed a provisional government and unveiled a constitution, one written in New York. The presence of the USS Nashville and the use of bribes allowed a successful revolution. In one day and with only one death, the new Republic of Panama was born.
Washington immediately extended diplomatic recognition. Within several days, Bunau-Varilla chauffeur driven car for rent (who had received permission from the provisional government to represent Panama) began negotiations. On 18 November, the two parties signed the Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty. It gave the United States a ten-mile strip of land, all the rights to construct and administer chauffeur driven car for rent a canal, and the right to protect the canal. In return, the Panamanians received $10 million and an annual rent of $250,000. Washington also promised to maintain Panama's independence.
Despite some criticisms of the agreement, chauffeur driven car for rent Roosevelt pressed the Senate for ratification , urging it to follow the example of the Panamanian Congress. After spirited debate, on 23 February 1904 the Senate voted 66–14 to accept it. Immediately Washington purchased the assets of the New Panama Canal Company for $40 million. The Panamanians chauffeur driven car for rent received their money and American engineers quickly set to work.
The canal took a decade to complete. It was a technological marvel, composed of a series of six locks that linked various waterways. chauffeur driven car for rent Under the supervision of the engineers John F. Stevens (1905–1907) and Lieutenant Colonel George W. Goethels (1907–1914), the Canal Commission completed the construction with substantial assistance from workers imported from the Caribbean islands and southern United States, in numbers exceeding 44,000 in 1913. Employing heavy machinery—and benefiting from new techniques to reduce yellow fever and other tropical diseases in an effort led by Dr. William Crawford Gorgas—the laborers created a new society within the newly independent Panama. The canal opened for commerce on 15 August 1914. The United States now had major new support for its economic and military growth as the water route from New York City to San Francisco shrank from 13,165 miles to 5,300.
In 1950, Congress passed the Thompson Act, which created the Panama chauffeur driven car for rent Canal Company, operated under the auspices of a board of directors. A governor of the Canal Zone, appointed by the U.S. president, monitored the day-to-day operations of the zone and used revenues to make improvements and maintain the canal. In addition, the U.S. military maintained bases in the Canal Zone to protect the important strategic site.
Throughout the period, Panamanian nationalists clamored for more beneficial terms than those in the 1903 treaty. A 1936 agreement increased the annuity paid by the U.S. government to Panamanians, and a 1942 treaty transferred various civil works projects to the Panamanian government and promised additional infrastructure development. Additional revisions occurred in the 1950s, including the flying of the Panamanian chauffeur driven car for rent flag in the Canal Zone as the United States tried to address issues of sovereignty.
chauffeur driven car for rent Despite compromises, tensions continued to mount. In January 1964, the most serious confrontation over the canal developed. American high school students, supported by their parent