As usual, California leads the nation. The good citizens of the Golden State have discovered a nefarious plot by the communist Chinese to infiltrate our schools and brainwash our children. It works like this.
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In the year since we returned from our RTW adventure, we purposely stayed close to home. But this past March, as the kids’ spring break approached, we looked for an opportunity to take a vacation as opposed to travel.
Our choice? The polar opposite of a ten-month round the world trip: A four-day Carnival Cruise.
Part Vegas, part Branson and all Mall of America, Carnival is build around the concept of “The Fun Ships,” relentlessly focused on giving Middle America a taste of the high life.
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Not that long ago, on February 27, 2010, a massive earthquake measuring 8.8 on the Richter Scale rocked the Chilean coast south of Santiago. Since then, public awareness has shifted to dozens of other problems, other tragedies.
With oil bearing down on the remarkable white sand beaches of the Florida Panhandle, we hopped a Southwest flight to the newly opened Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport in Panama City Beach.
According to Plato, Atlantis was a naval power lying “in front of the Pillars of Hercules.” The city-state conquered many parts of Western Europe and Africa 9,000 years before the time of Solon, or approximately 9600 BC.
After a failed attempt to invade Athens, Atlantis sank into the ocean “in a single day and night of misfortune.”
Uluru, the World Heritage Site formerly known as Ayers Rock, is one of the world’s most recognizable natural icons – and along with the Sydney Opera House, an international symbol for Australia.
