Travel Archives - Scott Bradford: Off on a Tangent Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University. Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:03:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Eastern Caribbean, 2026 https://www.scottbradford.us/2026/03/24/eastern-caribbean-2026/ Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:03:17 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=91878 Back in January, Melissa and I went on a seven-day cruise to the eastern Caribbean. First we spent a few days in San Juan, Puerto Rico, then we boarded the Norwegian Epic for a journey to the British Virgin Islands, Antigua, Barbados, Saint Lucia, Sint Maarten and Saint Martin, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. It […]

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]]> South America & Antarctica, 2025 https://www.scottbradford.us/2025/10/14/south-america-antarctica-2025/ Wed, 15 Oct 2025 03:23:10 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=90843 Back in January, Melissa and I visited South America and Antarctica. It was an amazing once-in-a-lifetime trip centered around a fourteen-day cruise on the Norwegian Star. This post includes a lot of photos . . . including more penguins than you probably ever wanted to see. There was a pretty big “snafu” right at the start of the […]

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]]> Japan and Alaska, 2024 https://www.scottbradford.us/2025/09/15/japan-and-alaska-2024/ Mon, 15 Sep 2025 13:02:05 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=89946 No, that’s not a typo in the title. Melissa and I went to Japan and Alaska all the way back in April 2024, but I just got around to sorting and processing my photos now. Sorry. It is what it is. I assume these places haven’t changed too much in the meantime! Our trip took […]

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]]> New England, 2022 and 2023 https://www.scottbradford.us/2024/01/23/new-england-2022-and-2023/ Wed, 24 Jan 2024 03:10:28 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=77345 And now for some more photos from my backlog. Melissa and I made two trips to New England over the last year and a half. The first took us to Providence, Rhode Island; Lost River Gorge, New Hampshire; Mount Washington, New Hampshire; and Plymouth, Massachusetts. The second took us to various sites in Maine, including […]

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]]> Caribbean Cruises, 2023 https://www.scottbradford.us/2024/01/18/caribbean-cruises-2023/ Thu, 18 Jan 2024 18:10:27 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=76957 I’m still working through processing a huge backlog of photos for posting to the site. These are from two Caribbean Cruises in early 2023. The first cruise was a short February getaway to the Bahamas on the Norwegian Sky out of Miami, Florida. The planned itinerary included stops in Freeport and at Norwegian’s private island, […]

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]]> Oahu, Hawaii, 2022 https://www.scottbradford.us/2023/08/26/oahu-hawaii-2022/ Sun, 27 Aug 2023 02:03:26 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=71505 Melissa and I went to the island of Oahu, Hawaii, last year . . . and I just now got around to sorting and processing the photos I took. We spent about a week driving around, seeing the sights, and having a great time. The first set of photos is a bunch of animals and scenery we saw […]

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]]> Random Photos https://www.scottbradford.us/2022/10/18/random-photos-9/ Wed, 19 Oct 2022 00:12:39 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=58551 It’s time for another bunch of random photos. I’m going to try to post these every six months or so, depending on how many pile up. They’re mostly just the weird or interesting things I come across while I’m “out and about” . . . or pet photos. Enjoy!

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]]> Florida Keys 2022 https://www.scottbradford.us/2022/04/06/florida-keys-2022/ Wed, 06 Apr 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=47736 If you read my last post, you know about our cruise saga. When we finally got back on a ship in September 2021, we thought the ad nauseum cycle of cancellations and re-bookings was over. The second phase of our attempt to finally use up the cruise credit—i.e., the interest-free loan that Norwegian Cruise Line […]

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]]> Caribbean Cruise 2021 https://www.scottbradford.us/2022/04/05/caribbean-cruise-2021/ Tue, 05 Apr 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=47618 Melissa and I love cruises. Our first was our honeymoon—a seven-day Alaska cruise on Holland America Line in 2005. Since then we have tried to go on a cruise every two or three years. So far, our longest was a fourteen-day cruise for our tenth anniversary in 2015—back to Alaska on the same ship from […]

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]]> Trip to Taipei and Hong Kong https://www.scottbradford.us/2017/06/10/trip-to-taipei-and-hong-kong/ Sat, 10 Jun 2017 14:23:04 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=26366 In April and May, Melissa and I traveled to Houston, Texas, and then from there traveled with Melissa’s mom, dad, and brother to Taipei, Taiwan (Republic of China) and Hong Kong (a special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China). This was primarily a trip to spend time with Melissa’s extended family, although we also […]

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