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Queen Mary 2: Next Summer Isn’t Soon Enough To Be Sent To Dry Dock: We just disembarked the QM2 in Brooklyn yesterday morning after sailing on the 175 anniversary cruise. Today we received an email announcing a refit in dry… Continue Reading →

Brooklyn Cruise Terminal Parking Disservice It’s a good thing we didn’t disembark in Boston and then arrive in New York later than the ship. If it wasn’t a cruise day, the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal Parking Lot would be shut down…. Continue Reading →

Valley Forge Puts On A Better Show Than Waterloo We visited Valley Forge National Park today and drove around the park loop, acquainting ourselves with Washington’s winter encampment. We were driving through the area and had arrived at our hotel… Continue Reading →

Held Hostage By Homeland Security In Boston: We were thinking of disembarking in Boston this morning. It’s a good thing we didn’t try. All shore excursions were held up. Homeland Security made sure they looked at everybody’s passport and room… Continue Reading →

Cunard Doesn’t Want You To Eat Lunch: When Dora sailed from New York to England in September of 1934, hurrying abroad to marry Colonel Sir Edward Ware and become Lady Ware, she didn’t encounter long waits at the Brooklyn Cruise… Continue Reading →

I guess motels and hotels in New York can’t be compared with motels in more normal locations. Dora knew that back in the early 1930’s when she used to take the train from Pittsburgh and rendezvous with Edward at the… Continue Reading →

The Waiter Showed Me To The Door: We stepped from the lobby of Courtyard by Marriott into the adjoining Ruby Tuesday’s Restaurant in Somerset, New Jersey only to be asked by a waiter, “Are you here to eat?” I said,… Continue Reading →

The Waitress Threw The Silverware At Us When we sat down to dinner at Bob Evans on Eisenhower Boulevard in Harrisburg, we could hardly keep the waitress and the manager away from our table. Every five minutes they’d pop up… Continue Reading →

A Touch Of The Bates Motel Just Off the PA Turnpike. It seemed an innocent enough place when we pulled into Breezewood yesterday and found our way to the Wiltshire Motel. Everything was on one level. They actually gave us… Continue Reading →

Miss Dora Benley and her parents made many voyages in Key to Lawrence Special Edition, the first novel of the Edward Ware Thriller series and the one concerning World War 1. The most famous voyage was the initial trip to… Continue Reading →