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Just two weeks to go...

This is the next post on the blog.  We leave two weeks from today, with our first stop in Orlando for a week of amusement parks, etc., after which we will drive to Ft. Lauderdale to board the Prinsendam for our transatlantic journey to Amsterdam.
Location: West Coast, USA

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