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As often happens, I get so busy with other things that I forget I have a website. I made a date with myself some time ago to get back to blogging, and I kept moving the date forward on my calendar as life intervened, but today is the day that I can finally surface.

It’s been a whirlwind since the start of the year. Over the holidays I was on a long cruise assignment on Silver Muse that didn’t end until early February. When I got home, I had my first true vacation in years, lounging in Mexico....

The first woman to drive around the world was a teenager in a Model T. Aloha Wanderwell (you guessed it--not her birth name, but that's a story for another time) had just turned sixteen when she abandoned her finishing school in 1922 to go off with a charismatic adventurer, Walter Wanderwell (not his birth name either) in his quest to drive around the world. She celebrated her eighteenth birthday in Vladivostok, after driving across Europe, Egypt, India, Malaysia, China and Manchuria years...