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As a storyteller of the places you visit on a cruise, I am always in prep mode to the day I depart. I also look around me and know that I will be gone for months at a time. It is not unusual to travel, at random times, for six or seven months in a year, although to leave home for half the year in one go, presents certain challenges. Snow birds will understand. They do this routinely every year. Repeat World Cruisers are experts at long-absence planning. The following are a few tips for preparing for a World Cruise....

How to Pack for a World Cruise The question that I am most frequently asked about cruise travel relates to packing. Packing for me is enjoyable. This is when I assemble all the fun items,...

Of the millions of visitors who come to Jordan each year to see Petra, most leave without heading north of Amman to Jerash. To do so is a missed opportunity to see an impressive 2,000-year-old city, executed at the height of Roman building prowess. Jerash is the city of hundreds of columns....

Mention of Petra instantly evokes visions of pink granite buildings carved into rock, as though Roman engineers strayed far from home to create a folly. Buildings of Petra, that amaze visitors, are older than some Roman cities. The population of Petra today is about the same as it was two thousand years ago, when it was the trade center of the Near East. Back then, the population was involved in trade. Today the population is employed in tourism. Today people walk or ride donkeys to where the Sig opens to the iconic pink sandstone Treasury building, just as they did two thousand years ago. The number of caravans coming to Petra at the time of Christ is hard to estimate. Today more than a million visitors each year check Petra off their travel to-do list....