Journey Beginnings

Saint John, New Brunswick, is one of those places where a cruise ship gives you just enough time to fall in love with the city and then rudely reminds you that it has a schedule. Stepping off the ship, one of the first things you’ll find is the AREA 506 Waterfront Container Village, a colorful waterfront collection of more than 60 shipping containers turned into shops, food spots, art installations, and places to grab a drink. And then there’s Runt not a person you need to wo

"The best vacations are the ones that almost never happened." Every cruise brochure shows smiling couples sipping tropical drinks while gazing romantically into the sunset. None of them show a husband standing in his condo parking lot at 5:30 in the morning asking... "Honey...where's the Tesla?" Welcome to our vacation. Day Minus One: The Curse Begins For months we'd been planning our seven-day Holland America cruise aboard the Zuiderdam from Boston through New England and At

Every great family adventure begins with someone saying, "Hey, I've got an idea..." In this case, the idea was to gather a dozen family and friends, load up the cars in Saratoga Springs, New York, meet one brave soul driving in from Connecticut, head to the Zoar Picnic Area in Massachusetts, and spend the afternoon floating down the Deerfield River. Simple. What could possibly go wrong? As it turns out... Quite a bit. Fortunately, every single thing that went wrong made the t