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Japan Is Efficient, but Not Necessarily Easy
Somewhere in between China and sailing across the Pacific, we made a five-day stop in Japan. It was rainy, and we had booked a room in Kyoto, so the first order of business was taking the train there...
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13 Reasons to Love Japan
We had our frustrations in Japan, sure, but overall, I am enamored with the country. I’d go as far as to name it in my top 10 favorite places visited, if not top five. Here are some of the quirky...
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Florida Fun: Lazy Days in Fort Lauderdale
Our very last stop on our trip around the world with Semester at Sea wound up being a place with which I am very familiar: Florida. I spent my Spring Breaks growing up at my parents’ condo in Orlando...
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Rainy Roatan: Diving in Honduras
While the island was a foot under water both times we ventured into the Caribbean to go diving in Honduras, we made the most of it and decided to spend our days, well, underwater. Because, I mean,...
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Semester at Sea: A Kid’s Perspective
It seems one of the things that people are most intrigued about the Semester at Sea experience is just exactly what the kids do. No not the 500-something college “kids,” but rather the dependent...
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Our Semester at Sea Voyage: By the Numbers
Everyone loves a good recap post, right? It seems only fitting that the end of my Semester at Sea coverage happens to fall on the day I leave for my next stint at sea. Still, in a nutshell, here’s the...
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Working on Semester at Sea: A Day in the Communications Office
If I’ve given you the impression that Enrichment Voyages is solely an educational cruise and nothing more, then I have done you a disservice. The Semester at Sea voyage is so much going on than just...
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Crossing the Equator: Become a Shellback
As we sailed from Panama to Ecuador, many of the Enrichment Voyage participants woke up to quite a commotion when the crew ran up and down each deck, clanging pots and pans and pounding on doorways....
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Castro, Gorbachev & Mother Teresa: Semester at Sea’s Legacy
As if Semester at Sea weren’t already cool enough, you should look at the roster of all the past and present notables who have sailed the open seas with the program. This past Enrichment Voyage, I was...
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Celebrating 50 Years of Semester at Sea on the Reunion Voyage
I told you about Santa Monica, but I completely glossed over our seven days in San Diego and on the ship to be part of Semester at Sea’s 50th anniversary via the annual Reunion Voyage. Better late...
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