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Hey, what's up? My name is Doug Parker. Thank you so much for checking out this episode of

Cruise Radio. I'm very happy to have you here. Just got back from Alaska. And if you've never been

there, it is amazing. And I hate to use the word bucket list because everyone always says that

Alaska is a bucket list destination. But it really is one of those things you have to do before you die.

So yeah, it's a bucket list thing.

Coming up on this week's show, we're going to review from Kathy of Allure of the Sea.

She just returned from a seven-night Caribbean sailing there.

Also, Sherry Kennedy is standing by with cruise news.

We'll hear from Sherry in just a couple of minutes here.

Stuart Shear on the cruise guy over on the Queen Mary 2 doing a transatlantic crossing right now.

A couple of housekeeping things. Cruise Radio News. It's our cruise radio Facebook group.

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Okay. Sherry Kennedy is standing by with this week's edition of Cruise News. Hey, Sherry. Hi, Doug. You know, we just got back from Holland America's New Amsterdam, sailed a seven-night Alaska sailing through Glacier Bay and Insight Passage. And you haven't been up there yet, have you? I still have not gotten to Alaska, despite my last name.

Well, yeah, that's right, Alaska.

Well, not Kennedy, but Laskin.

And it never gets sold.

It doesn't, doesn't. So a couple of news talking points this week, and of course one of the big ones,

it's pretty much gone now, but a couple of ships were shifted around in the Caribbean

because of a

tropical storm turned hurricane. Yeah, it was good old Hurricane Earl, and he is now

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