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24 MEXICAN RIVIERA CRUISE
We didn’t have high expectations for our recent
Mexican Riviera New Year’s voyage on Holland
America’s Koningsdam. We just needed a post-
holiday cruise fix and this seven-day adventure
conveniently sailed round-trip out of our home-
town port of San Diego.

71 THE MILLY SAILS AGAIN

“You can be our guinea pigs!” veteran cruise
friends exclaimed to us when we told them that
we recently had booked an eight-night cruise
on the Celebrity Millennium. The cruise would
take us from our San Diego hometown up the
coast to San Francisco

76 A WHALE OF AN ADVENTURE

“Now let’s head for the snow!” exclaimed our
guide, Mike Essary, of Baja Custom Tours as we
drove away from Guerrero Negro and the
“friendlies,” baleen whales of Scammon’s Lagoon,
to continue on the second leg of our trip.

Amy Laughinghouse

London-based writer and photographer Amy Laughinghouse has attempted to
overcome her fears (and sometimes basic common sense) through her adven-
tures in 30 countries around the world. She dishes on the perks and perils of glo-
betrotting for publications like LonelyPlanet.com, AAA Journey Magazine,
Virtuoso Life, and The Dallas Morning News. Her travel tales can also be found on
her website, www.amylaughinghouse.com.

Jody Jaffe & John MuncieMuncie

Jody and John are award-winning journalists and novelists. John is a Lowell
Thomas Award-Winner and was feature editor of The San Diego Union-Tribune,
arts editor of The Baltimore Sun and writer-editor-columnist for the travel de-
partment of The Los Angeles Times. Jody was a journalist at the Charlotte Ob-
server, where she was on a team that won the Pulitzer Prize. Her articles have
been published in many publications including The New York Times and The Los
Angeles Times. They live on a farm in Lexington, Va.
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