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Saturday Morning Trick or Treat 10/31/09

Saturday Morning Trick or Treat 10/31/09 Are you kidding me? The last two weeks have been a little more productive in the travel business. Hoo Ya! I am hoping that I finish the year with a bang! Remember to always love your travel agent. "College Football Dad" has been at home watching college football while Pod has been on the road for a few weeks. It's pretty hard to watch on the tube or ESPN 360. I am not a good TV watcher when Pod is on the field. I do a lot of pacing. Our weather has been hot, cool, hot and cool again. I wish Mother Nature would make up her mind. Royal Car...Read More...

Thursday Afternoon Toasted Fisherman 10/8/09

Thursday, October 8, 2009 Thursday Afternoon Toasted Fisherman 10/08/09 Wow! What a week this has been. Well actually two weeks. This College Football Dad going to a football game in the middle of the week last week has me a little screwed up. I am catching up though. Our weather is so bizarre right now. We had about six inches last weekend and most of my mulch has left my yard. I wonder if insurance covers that. I wish the cool weather would just set in and let fall be fall. The biz has picked up some. This coming week is the big grand daddy of all week in the cruise biz. Every ...Read More...

Friday Afternoon Fruit Basket 9/25/09

Friday Afternoon Fruit Basket 9/25/09 What a week! It has been crazy. After several months of triple digits we get this cold front that comes in with rain for several days. Don't get me wrong I love the cool rainy weather, just not all at once. It is also great college football weather. Don't worry, be happy! The biz has gone ok this week. I am still networking and marketing like crazy. I have been getting things ready for October 14th. This day is deemed as WLCN. In the cruise industry it is the World's Largest Cruise Night. All cruise lines have super duper specials for those who b...Read More...

Sunday Afternoon San Juan Cooler 9/13/09

Sometimes it takes forever to catch up. My goal is to write once a week. I did not achieve this last week. I was still putting my pieces back together from my road trip to see Pod play at Auburn in his first college football game. I promise to get back on track. One real good thing that has happened over the last few days is "Rain" It has actually rained for the last 3 days. I think my plants and grass are still in shock and they are not sure if they should grow or not. The business has been ok, but could be better. Marketing and networking is fast and furious and as always I keep my Cruisi...Read More...

Thursday Afternoon Tropical Tease 8/27/09

As our travels take us down south I thought we would start this afternoon off with a Tropical Tease. There is nothing wrong with being teased and how can you go wrong being teased in the tropics? This tease starts off like this:

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Monday Morning Muscle Milk 8/17/09

Monday Morning Muscle Milk 8/17/09 Our journey up north has ended. Alaska & Seattle, I promise I will be back. I know your beauty will always be there. It is now time to head south. Before we get to far south I am going to make a pit stop along the way. For those of you who have been following my blog I thank you from the bottom of my heart. I would be honored if you shared or even became a follower of this blog. As I stated in the beginning when I started "Travelin' with John" this would be writings about my past travel adventures, new travel adventures, travel news, travel ...Read More...

Saturday Morning Satin Sheets 8/8/09

Saturday Morning Satin Sheets 8/8/09 This has been a very interesting week for sure. We thought we had our house sold and then we don't. Life is too short to dwell on the past. Do the right things, continue to move forward in a positive direction and good things will happen. I am a firm believer. I will jump to my sales side for a moment. I promise I will get back to the story very soon. We really do have some great specials going on right now at Fantasy Cruise & Travel along with some great travel tools to make things super simple. If you know someone else who is also looking for a gr...Read More...

Tuesday Afternoon Texas Prairie Fire 7/28/09

Tuesday Afternoon Texas Prairie Fire 7/28/09 The week has started a bit more active. This is a good thing! Remember to tell your friends and neighbors to love a Travel Agent too. We always need love. It also helps keep our Cruisitude on track! If you have been watching the news lately, you know that in South Texas it is hotter than H E double heck. No rain in sight and triple digit temps. Watering restrictions to boot! It is like we have a barrier around us. Oh well, what are you going to do? While researching for this week’s beverage, I said what the heck. I ...Read More...

Wednesday Evening Watermelon Crawl 7/22/09

Wednesday Evening Watermelon Crawl 7/22/09   Onward our journey goes. My week has started off on the quite side and somewhat slow. I know you want to go somewhere? You know how to get hold of me. Since we are in the middle of the summer, I thought we would jump start our Wednesday evening off with a Watermelon Crawl. Who? A what? A Watermelon is made for eating in the summer evenings on the back porch with family and friends. I know the adult version can sometimes have a bottle stuck in it for added flavors, but crawl around with a watermelon? Are you crazy? I guess so because this ...Read More...

Fuzzy Navel Friday 7/17/09

Fuzzy Navel Friday 7/17/09 Well the week is almost over. What a week this has been! My youngest son left for Louisiana Tech. He is getting ready to start his college football career. Kick your butt off! My Cruisitude has been on fire! What about yours? If you love your travel agent send him some love! With it being Friday I thought we would start the afternoon on the calm side and build our way up, so why not a Fuzzy Navel. Are you crazy? No, it’s summer time and it is hot! Here is the skinny! Grab your favorite glass with your favorite type of ice and pour peach schnapps and OJ. ...Read More...

Thursday Afternoon Tire Swing 7/9/09

Thursday Afternoon Tire Swing 7/9/09 Keeping with the drink theme, I thought I would find a very unique drink for today’s blog. There really is a drink called a Tire Swing. Here is the scoop! Mix Amaretto, OJ, 151 Rum, crushed ice and blend. Pour it in a mason jar and find an old tire next to a lake or river and sit back and relax. Sounds like my kind of drink! Let our travels begin. A place exists in Alaska where the past lives on, where the cries of "gold in the Yukon" still echo from steep canyon walls, where the sounds of bar room pianos and boomtown crowds ring out in...Read More...

Margarita Monday 6/29/09

Margarita Monday   As the summer heat invades the other 49 states, it's time to talk about my favorite state. Margarita's are allowed! If you want to cool off in the summer, Alaska is the place to go. Cool weather and amazing sites. Now that is a Cruisitude feeling! We arrived Whitier around 3:00 in the afternoon and once we got off the train it was only a short walk to the terminal to start the boarding process for the largest ship I have ever stood next to. Man was this thing huge! She only holds 1900 passengers and I can not imagine what these new mega ships coming out that hold ...Read More...

Tuesday Evening Tequila! 6/16/09

Tuesday Evening Tequila 6/16/09   Now that the Alaska cruise season has started, I thought I would share our adventure's on the trip that Janet and I took to Alaska in 2007. It is a trip that is still fresh in my memory and I will never forget it. We elected to cruise with Princess on this trip. We were celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary and could not think of a better destination than Alaska. So we decided to do a wilderness tour for 5 days before we caught up with the Princess Coral in Whittier (Near Anchorage) We started off our trip from San Antonio with a long flight to Fa...Read More...

Sunday Afternoon Sangria 5/31/09

Sunday Afternoon Sangria   I have put this off for way too long and now I am officially blogging! Wow, I hope I know what the heck I am doing! Jeremy, Curtis, Tanner, Help! Here we go! Let me start by introducing myself. My name is John Nelson Jr and I am the owner of Fantasy Cruise & Travel. I am one of the newest full service travel agencies in the San Antonio area. I have always had a passion for travel and helping my family find the best deals with the right destination, either by plane, cruise ship or their own car. Now with that being said, you are probably wondering what t...Read More...