Doctor Grumpy in the House

Heading south from Skagway you pass Vanderbilt Reef in the middle of the channel. It's a small, rocky, outcropping, with a visibility ma...

Funny thing about cruise ships... You see people wandering around with food combinations you’d likely NEVER see on land. You’re in the eleva...

The ship's newsletter today had a note today asking passengers to “refrain from leaving the water running or balcony door open when not ...

If you're enjoying this year's Grumpy family vacation, please remember that previous year's stories of travel insanity can be fo...

We spent the next couple days steaming north through fog and rain. This ship, like all of these types, has a small shopping mall. One stor...

This morning we headed off to the pier, to catch our cruise ship. Rather than stopping at a restaurant for breakfast I just took the kids to...

Today we walked over to Ghirardelli Square. I had no idea how dangerous a city this was:   "This is not going to look good on a he...

Waking up this morning I was glancing through the news and noticed this story. I had no idea Elvis was a terrorist:   While waiting in ...

A few days before we left, Frank dropped his phone in the pool. So we stuck it in a bag of rice for 48 hours, with some improvement. Sinc...