By Zach Laks “Oh, Zach, you love cruises?” “That’s cool. They’re not for me!” More than any other category of travel, whenever I mention I love cruises, there’s always a weighted response. Often, that response is immediate rejection — folks insisting that cruising is not for them or that they’re not “the cruising type.” I get it and understand that not everything is for everyone. But let me respond from my ocean of experience as a travel writer: If you’ll allow, cruisi...| Outtraveler.com
I started working on our family’s travel plans for Semester at Sea six months or so before we left the US on the adventure of a lifetime. As I pored over apps like Travelocity, Hopper, and hotels.com to try to... Continue Reading →| Josh Misner, PhD
A lot has transpired in the last two weeks since I blogged here. We left Poland, had to skip traversing the Kiel Canal in Germany because of technical difficulties (with the canal, not the ship, thankfully), spent about 6 days... Continue Reading →| Josh Misner, PhD
When I was a kid, living my best parachute pants-clad life in the 1980s, I was a devout fan of Mad Magazine. My fandom, of course, was fueled primarily by my love of the cartoon, Spy vs. Spy.| Josh Misner, PhD