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Lake Powell – Another planet right here in the USA
It really is otherworldly. At times you feel like you have just been personally dropped into a science fiction movie (in fact several have been filmed here) – on a huge lake, surrounded by desert, sheer cliffs with painted stripes, and bizarre rock formations…
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Mo’orea and Tahiti: Mermaid Heaven!
What’s a lagoon? The word lagoon conjures images of the lagoon on “Gilligan’s Island”. The lagoons around the French Polynesian islands are something else altogether. Picture a shallow coral reef encircling the island with a few gaps in the coral…
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A stopover in Iceland went from “Why not?” to “Oh, Wow!”
We thought 4 days should be plenty of time to explore the highlights of a country much smaller than our beautiful state of Colorado. Wrong! We soon learned that there is so much to see and do in Iceland that we wished…
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Punta Serena – Ahhhh!! Romantic Mexico, adults only
Never heard of Punta Serena? The small resort is perched cliff-side on the peninsula with views of dolphins and whales frolicking and an idyllic beach on each side – the south side is adults only and clothing optional…
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Sailing bareboat among the Belize Cayes. You Better Belize It!
From “We don’t want to go to Belize, it’s dangerous and buggy” to Belize was our best overall experience – the sailing, the scenery, and the food were all good, but it was the people…
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Bareboat Sailing the Greek Isles
“Sorry, but the catamarans you reserved for your 7-day sailing adventure are no longer available”. The previous charter group had wrecked them so all three of our reserved boats were now in dry dock on a distant Greek island…