Category: Cruises

There Are Now TWO Titanic Replicas In The Works, But Only One Is 100% Unsinkable

People have been obsessed with the Titanic ever since when she went on her maiden voyage, hit an iceberg and tragically sunk, killing over 1,500 people. There are been movies about the ship, (shuttered) plans to raise her, museums, exhibitions and dinner theater shows about her, plans to bring tourists to her watery grave, as well as dozens of hours of video of the wreck.

Ideas to rebuild the Titanic have come and gone for decades. Right now there are two different companies building two different full-sized replicas of the ship of dreams; one that will probably finish pretty soon, one that I suspect never will really even start.

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Flat Earthers Cruise Being Planned (Note: Cruises Are Navigated By GPS, Which Works Because The Earth Is Round)

You can’t make this stuff up.

According to several sources (Forbes, Live Science, Tech Times, etc.), the Flat Earth International Conference (FIEC) is going on a cruise in 2020. The reason? In order to prove that Earth is not a sphere, they’re going to Antarctica to look for the ice wall that holds back the ocean.

Really?

Well, no, not really. Just only sort of. Read on…

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Norwegian Cruise Line Giving Away Free Cruises To 15 Who Spread The Joy Of Learning

It’s been said that travel is one of the best forms out education out there. It gives you the opportunity to learn about history, other cultures, compassion and social skills. You can potentially find out more about about nature and/or even a new language. So who better to potentially get free travel than those who understands education the best…teachers?

That’s exactly what Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) is setting out to do by giving away 15 cruises to teachers..

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Plan To Fly On April 6th? You Might Want To Think Twice About That

Do you remember Y2K, when January 1, 2000 was coming around the bend and everyone was worried that the world was going to end (well, figuratively, not necessarily literally) because the electronics of the world that used time/calendar as part of its interface couldn’t handle going to 01/01/00, 00:00?

Well, we have another “crisis” coming up, this time on April 6th, 2019. But this time it’s not because of clocks.

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Credit Card Offer Of The Year, Worst Flight In America, Spending 3,000,000 Marriott (Bonvoy), Rewards & More

Happy Sunday to all of our travel friends, both near and far! Here are some articles we’ve read from other bloggers (and other sources) that we think you may like, as well, so we’re passing them along.

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