0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines On Life and Love After 50: Should We Go? Tom Blake By Tom Blake It seems that every time my partner, Greta, and I plan a trip, situations arise beforehand that make us ask…
0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines CoastLines: Home, Healthy from an Unforgettable Stranding at Sea Fred Swegles By Fred Swegles After some 20 cruises to ports around the world over the past 25 years, San Clemente retirees Craig and Ruth…
0 Opinion Columns, SOAPBOX On Life and Love after 50: Dateline: Dublin, Ireland By Tom Blake Greta and I just completed a 10-day land tour around Ireland. We joined 25 other people from the U.S. and one man from…
0 Opinion Columns, SOAPBOX On Life and Love After 50: It’s Time to Go By Tom Blake It’s hard to believe that almost a year has passed since my partner, Greta, and I departed on an 82-day cruise to…
1 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines On Life and Love after 50: Mission Accomplished in Pago Pago, American Samoa By Tom Blake My partner, Greta, and I disembarked from the Holland America cruise ship M.S. Amsterdam at 9 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 21, in…
0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines On Life and Love after 50: Australia, 10 Days of Wonderment By Tom Blake Over the past few issues, I’ve shared with you details of an 82-day cruise through Asia that my partner, Greta, and I…
0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines On Life and Love after 50: Having a Sling in Singapore before Noon By Tom Blake I never drink alcohol before noon, and the thought of drinking something stronger than beer or wine before that time is even…
0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines On Life and Love after 50: The People You Meet Aboard Ship on a Cruise By Tom Blake In my previous column, I wrote about an 82-day Grand Asia and Pacific cruise that my life partner, Greta, and I are…
0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines On Life and Love after 50: It’s Time to Go: Grand Asia & Pacific Cruise By Tom Blake Reality hit me this week when a FedEx driver came to the front door of our Dana Point home and picked up…
0 Opinion Columns, SOAPBOX CoastLines: Saturday Dana Point Cruise is a Fun Time to be Had By Fred Swegles What’s better than Saturday night on the town? Saturday night on the water, maybe? For some time, I’ve wanted to check out…
2 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines On Life and Love After 50: An Ocean Farewell to an Austrian Friend By Tom Blake In May, while on vacation in Graz, Austria, my life partner Greta and I had dinner with a couple we had never…
0 SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines On Life and Love After 50: Ocean Cruise Brings 13 Strangers Together By Tom Blake Last February, San Juan Capistrano travel agent Ann Ronan, asked if I’d be willing to host a four-day “Tom Blake Loving…
