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• Freeport closed to cruise ships at least til Sunday

  It's official: we're not going to Freeport, where the port won't open til tomorrow due to Hurricane Sandy. And right now, the Coast Guard won't let the ship leave the Port of Palm Beach, although there's a possibility that later we can take a 'cruise to nowhere' (translation: open the' [...]

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• Bahamas cruise: Still stuck in port

  As soon as I woke up, I pulled open the curtain and looked out. Darn! The cargo dock of the Port of Palm Beach. Twelve hours after the Bahamas Celebration was scheduled to leave for Freeport, Grand Bahama, we were still in Florida.

  Late afternoon Friday, after the captain announced that [...]

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• Shuttle Atlantis to make its final journey

  
  On Friday, the last space shuttle will make its final journey. Atlantis, the last orbiter from the retired shuttle fleet to move to its exhibition space, will travel from the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (pictured above) to the visitors complex. The daylong, 10-mile journey will include a couple stops, [...]

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• Hurricane cruise: Will we get to the Bahamas?

  It wasn't my intention to cruise into a hurricane. But when I booked this cruise almost two months ago, I thought it was a safe gamble since we would be past the peak of hurricane season.

  So here I am at the Port of Palm Beach, waiting for the Bahamas Celebration' [...]

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