Cruise vacations allow time to explore beauty in the world. As places of political turmoil or warnings of health emergencies cause ports of the world to disappear from itineraries, travelers seek safe options to expand...

Aesthetics & Existence – Architecture, City Planning, Preservation In this segment of the World Tour to ports illustrative of human development the focus is on the immediate last century to the present. In the 16th century...

Birth of Democracy, Free Commerce, Art, Exploration, and Innovation This segment of the World Tour in development of human history spans a thousand years of thought, writing, arts, and invention. The first half of this...

In the Path of Abrahamic Religions – Reverence and Pilgrimage, Addressing the three Abrahamic religions in order of appearance; Judaism, Christianity, Islam. (Stories for each noted port are CTH book#) This segment of the world...