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As I wrote in my January newsletter, my husband and I cruised Asian seas during October and early November. We returned home for almost three weeks, then headed south to cruise through Central America. That cruise took us from Cozumel, Mexico to Guayaquil, Ecuador via the Panama Canal with additional stops at Costa Maya, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and Costa Rica. While I have a soft spot in my heart for all stops, I think Cozumel may have been the most fun. Our tour for the

We began in Yokahama, Japan, with the threat of a typhoon lingering offshore. Great! I expected to be overtaken by motion sickness as soon as we left shore. As it turned out, I wasn’t, and for someone who is prone to motion sickness, I wasn’t affected at all. Not once! From Yokahama, we sailed to ports providing land-tour access to Nagoya, Kyoto, Hiroshima and Kagoshima. We visited a variety of palaces, museums, Shinto and Buddhist temples, and more. We walked through a bambo

TRAVEL PLANS My husband and I had already booked a Trafalgar tour of Spain, Morocco and Portugal, when I started writing my current manuscript The Tsarina’s Crown . Although the story occurs during World War I, it is not connected to my earlier works: The Prophecy Saga . As The Tsarina’s Crown developed, the need for extensive research became apparent and my research-assistant/husband was on it. A few days into the research and development, he suggested that we should leave