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This week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast I am delighted to welcome The Legendary Manny Kellough. Legendary? At 17 Manny played drums with Ray Charles; later Barry White, Carmen McCrae, The Main Ingredient, Freddie Hubbard, The Rolling Stones (Goat's Head Soup Tour), Quincy Jones (Sanford & Son Theme Song), Billy Preston (Grammy, and 4 gold records) and Larry Graham and Graham Central Station. Manny set up the jazz program on Celebrity and Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines. Currently he appears with his ensemble on Royal Caribbean Symphony of the Seas, and also is a guest musician on Virgin Voyages. An amazing gentleman and a great conversation!

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This week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast, I am delighted to welcome John Roberts the embodiment of In The Loop Travel. I featured John and In The Loop Travel in Cruising Interrupted in a section called The Globetrotters, which focused on world travelers who transcend cruising. John is a consummate cruiser, however. He has sailed 120 cruises and has a wide breadth of cruising experience, from mega-ships to luxury craft to expedition cruises to Antarctica. Whenever I am close to booking a ship—and I wish it were one of the luxury vessels John vlogs about—I first check to see if John has a review up. And he always does. 

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This week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast, I am delighted to welcome Joe Church, a truly amazing story and reader favorite. In The Joy of Cruising. I dubbed Joe the Marathoner of the Seas, and told his unique story of how 70-something Joe runs a marathon distance, 26.2 miles, on every Royal Caribbean ship—beginning with Liberty of the Seas in 2008, not only his first marathon distance on a ship, but his first cruise—through to Royal’s newest, the largest ship in the world, Wonder of the Seas just a few weeks ago. Joe was also featured in the second book, Cruising Interrupted—his story is evergreen—as long as Royal builds new ships, Joe says he going to run a marathon distance on them. As fascinating as that is, there is a lot more to Joe than running on ships. He ran in the NYC Marathon a couple years ago; he has run marathons on every continent, 63 countries, and in every state in the US—well over 25,000-miles since running his first marathon in only 2005. Joe is a man of three passions: cruising, running, and oh, he is an ardent bird watcher who traveled the world birdwatching long before his first cruise. 

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Quirky Cruise was featured in Cruising Interrupted in a section called “Specialty Cruising: Fun and Quirky.” I have had conversations with cruisers who have gone on over one hundred cruises but have never experienced a cruise on a non-traditional cruise ship; that is, a small ship designed to hold 300 or fewer passengers; some low double digits, even single digits! These small ships can range from spartan to ultra-luxury, and because of their size and design can access destinations that mainstream cruise ships cannot. 

 Quirky Cruise's slogan is “travel without the crowds.” Quirky Cruise is the source for reviews, news, and round-ups about unusual and small-ship cruises under 300 passengers, from river boats to canal barges, sailing ships, coastal cruisers, and expedition vessels. Heidi Sarna and Ted Scull created Quirky Cruise because they love small-ship cruising and want to share what they know and have experienced with others who also like traveling on small, intimate vessels. 

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The Joy of Cruising Podcast welcomes contemporary jazz star Vincent Ingala to the show. One of the fastest emerging contemporary jazz recording artists in recent history, multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer, Vincent Ingala has blasted into an exciting stratosphere.  Still in his twenties, the charismatic saxophonist has been named Billboard Smooth Jazz Artist of the Year in 2012, Sirius XM Watercolors breakthrough artist of the year in 2013, and his music is consistently found atop the most noteworthy music charts in the world, including nine number one hits on the billboard smooth jazz chart, and twenty one singles in the billboard smooth jazz top 10. In The Joy of Cruising, I wrote extensively about theme cruising in a section called Theme Cruising: Two Passions In One, and another section called, Performing On the Ocean. I am delighted to welcome Vincent Ingala to talk about theme cruising from the performer’s perspective.

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A conversation with Ilana of Life Well Cruised, a massively successful cruise blog, YouTube channel, and influential FaceBook community. Life Well Cruised was featured in the second book of The Joy of Cruising Trilogy—Cruising Interrupted www.amazon.com/Cruising-Interrupted-follow-up-formerly-known/dp/1098344650/ in the section, Bloggers:  Cruise Community Champions. Ilana and Life Well Cruised are certainly Cruise Community Champions to its almost 200,000 fans.
Here’s the video mentioned (show with comedian/juggler) Ilana is at the end:

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Sheri of Cruise Tips TV is one of the most popular cruise influencers and content creators on social media, and is often called upon to represent the perspective of cruisers in mainstream media. Cruise Tips TV was featured in both The Joy of Cruising amzn.to/2EAMddF and Cruising Interrupted amzn.to/3seFU8y, and when I wanted to get quotes to include in the new book, The Joy of Cruising Again amzn.to/3lAfyON, from cruise community leaders following the restart Sheri is one of the first I turned to. Sheri is a welcome and ideal first guest, always full of valuable cruising insights.

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Paul C. Thornton, author of The Joy of Cruising Trilogy—The Joy of Cruising, Cruising Interrupted, and new release, The Joy of Cruising Again introduces The Joy of Cruising Podcast—a weekly conversation with one of the amazing cruisers with fascinating stories featured in The Joy of Cruising Trilogy. Paul highlights the amazing diversity of the books in terms of where the various cruise personalities he writes about are from in the world, their age range, and their fascinating stories about cruising from the perspective of celebrities, to “ordinary” cruisers doing extraordinary things! Paul emphasizes this is the last time you'll hear just him, and mentions some of the podcast guests in upcoming weeks

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