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Star Trek the Cruise VIII
Star Trek the Cruise VIII. Fun times on the ship.
iamjas2
Apr 16 min read
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Maui: Days 76-82
Day 76: Day 76 was Saturday, January 11, 2025, once again. Not the Saturday that we spent at the botanic gardens and the movie in our...
iamjas2
Jan 3012 min read
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New Zealand: Auckland (Days 72-75)
Day 72: Wednesday, January 8 we started our tour of our last non-USA city for our around-the-world-in-81-days trip. I am writing this...
iamjas2
Jan 2113 min read
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New Zealand: North Island (Days 68-71)
Day 68 (Wellington to Ohakune, 298 km): Saturday morning, we caught an Uber back to the airport to get our rental car. We had a date with...
iamjas2
Jan 1514 min read
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New Zealand: Wellington (Days 64-67)
Day 64: December 31st, New Year’s Eve we flew from Sydney, Australia to Wellington, New Zealand. We arrived in Wellington in the late...
iamjas2
Jan 813 min read
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Australia: Sydney (Days 60-63)
Day 60 (Soldiers Point to Sydney 229 km): We got onto the road by 9:15 AM from our B&B at Soldiers Point. The drive was not particularly...
iamjas2
Jan 513 min read
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Australia: Brisbane to Nelson Bay (Days 57-59)
Day 57 (Brisbane to Ballina, 231 km) Christmas Eve, we left Brisbane around 9:30 AM for our drive to Ballina. We originally thought we...
iamjas2
Jan 110 min read
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Australia: Brisbane (Days 54-56)
Day 54 (Mountain Creek to Brisbane, 115 km): Saturday, December 21, we left Kieran and Tammy’s place around 10:30 to head to Brisbane. We...
iamjas2
Dec 28, 20248 min read
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Australia: Magnetic Island to Mooloolaba (Days 50-53)
Day 50 (Magnetic Island to Cape Hillsborough National Park, 390 km): The ferry took us back to Townsville with super fun memories from...
iamjas2
Dec 26, 202411 min read
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Australia: Magnetic Island (Days 48-50)
Day 48 (Cairns to Horseshoe Bay, Magnetic Island, 368 km). We got up at 7:30 in an effort to start getting on the road earlier....
iamjas2
Dec 23, 20247 min read
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Australia: Far Northeast (Days 43-47)
Day 43 (Driving distance Cairns to Port Douglas, 67 km): Tuesday, December 10. We had two flights between day 42 and 43. Day 42 we flew...
iamjas2
Dec 21, 20247 min read
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Thailand: Phuket (Days 37-42)
Day 37: We arrived in Phuket in the evening around 8 PM. By the time we got our car and hit the road, we were travel weary. We headed to...
iamjas2
Dec 19, 20248 min read
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Thailand: Chiang Mai (Days 34-37)
Day 34: In our last blog, we had just visited the phantasmagorical Blue Temple. We left around 11 AM to head south for Chiang Mai. Along...
iamjas2
Dec 14, 202410 min read
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Thailand: Chiang Rai (Days 31-34)
Day 31: This day was mostly travel. We took a flight from Bangkok up to Chiang Rai in the north. Chiang Rai is both a city and a province...
iamjas2
Dec 11, 202411 min read
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Thailand: Bangkok (Days 27-30)
Day 27: We left the Wood Castle Hotel in New Delhi around 7 AM for the airport. Our flight was not until 11:10 AM. Javeed recommended the...
iamjas2
Dec 7, 202411 min read
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India: New Delhi (Days 22-26)
Day 22: We spent the day traveling on Ethiopian Airlines. One oddity about Ethiopian. Every time I picked seats for us, they or their...
iamjas2
Dec 2, 202416 min read
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South Africa: Johannesburg (Days 20–21)
Day 20: In our previous blog, we took a quick tour of Livingstone, Zambia on our way to the Livingstone airport. We flew from Zambia back...
iamjas2
Nov 28, 20246 min read
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Zimbabwe, Botswana and Zambia (Days 17-20)
Day 17: This blog entry starts a bit…challenging. Keep reading. It gets better. Thursday, November 14th was a travel day. And it was...
iamjas2
Nov 27, 202410 min read
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South Africa: Kruger Self-Drive (Days 15-16)
Day 15 continued: We left Kings Camp and Timbavati around 11 AM on November 12 for our 90-minute ride to Hazyview. It was a cloudy and...
iamjas2
Nov 24, 20246 min read
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South Africa: Heffalumps and Woozles (Days 12-15)
Day 12: We spent three of the best days and nights of our lives in and around Kings Camp in the Timbavati Wildlife Park  in northeastern...
iamjas2
Nov 20, 202414 min read
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