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Hey, what's up? My name is Doug Parker. Thanks for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio. Very happy to have you here, my friend. So we were talking about it last week a little bit. I had a chance to interview Jay Leno over in Cozamel, and we'll be listening to that interview here in just a few minutes. Also had a chance to chat with cruise director Matt Mitchum on Carnival Vista. So we'll have his interview as well. And Richard Sims, he's a writer

over at Cruise Radio and an editor that makes me look semi-intelligent. He'll be here to chat with me

about the Western Caribbean cruise. We're not going to talk about Carnival Vista because we've

pretty much reviewed the death out of that over the past year. So we're going to talk more along

the lines of the Western Caribbean Cruise experience and what ports we hit. So we're going to talk more along the lines of the Western Caribbean cruise experience

and what ports we hit. So we'll get to Richard in just a couple of seconds here. Don't forget

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and put your two cents in. Also, email me, Doug, do you at cruiseio.net. If you just got back from a cruise, want to talk about an excursion or, heck, just want to talk, you drop me an email there. All right, Richard, what's up? Thanks for having me again. I always enjoy hanging out. And it's kind of interesting. This time we're talking about something different than what we normally talk about. because I'm used to talking to you about the ships, but this time we're talking about something different than what we normally talk about. So, because I'm used to talking to you about the ships, but this time we're talking about your actual

sort of journey. So how was the sailing overall? Good. It was a six-night Western Caribbean

sailing. We did Oce Rios, Jamaica. We did Grand Cayman and we did did Cozumel, got to do some really cool excursions

and got a chance to do Carnival's lip sync battle, which is one of the Spike TV shows, and see a

Carnival Live event.

And am I crazy, or did you get to actually interview Jay Leno?

That must have been kind of cool.

You are crazy, and yes, I did interview Jay Leno. Got a chance to spend about 10 minutes with him,

probably recorded for about six of those minutes, and had a good conversation, really, really

funny guy. So for people who aren't familiar, and I have to admit I'm one of them,

what's the difference between the eastern and western Caribbean sailings?

So I tend to think of it like this. The Western Caribbean is Mexico, Jamaica, Grand Cayman,

Honduras, Belize, all those areas under Texas and the Gulf of Mexico, Eastern Caribbean,

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