The author, pictured in front of the Carnival Vista.
For 16 months, not a single Carnival Cruise ship departed from the US.
That changed on July 3 when the Carnival Vista ship departed from Galveston, Texas, and made stops in Mahogany Bay, Honduras; Belize; and Cozumel, Mexico.
About 2,700 passengers were aboard the 15-deck ship. According to the company, 95% of its passengers and 98% of the crew were vaccinated.
I was one of those vaccinated passengers, and spent the next seven nights discovering the ways cruising has and hasn t changed for travelers in the name of journalism.
Admittedly, much of the experience felt the same, but there were still some changes. Here are the biggest differences passengers saw aboard the ship.
Of Melanesian, Polynesian and African-American heritage, Henry Gibson Dan was popularly known as Seaman Dan.
His youngest daughter confirmed the death of her father at the age of 91, writing on Facebook that she is very saddened by this news . My father will always be my hero, for he turned a bad situation into good.
Seaman Dan s daughter says she will always remember her father s positive outlook on life.
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The musician released his first album at the age of 70 after decades of performing live gigs.
His music combined the genres of blues, hula and jazz with the traditional music of Torres Strait Islander culture.
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December 15, 2020 Canada Border Services Agency officials observe as the first doses of Pfizer-BioNTech s COVID-19 vaccine arrive in Quebec on Dec. 13, 2020. (Canada Border Services Agency/Handout)
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Yesterday, the
first Canadian received a coronavirus vaccine. The photo of the day maybe the year? captured the moment that a personal support worker named
Anita Quidangen received her first inoculation in Toronto. Just the night before, another set of images showing the vaccine’s arrival at Canadian airports were ubiquitous in their own right. Clearly, Canadians will closely follow every development, every first, every step closer to mass immunization.