Since publishing The Most Traveled Man on Earth in 2006, Lew hasn’t stopped cruising and traveling. The stories below describe some of his adventures at sea, his search for the legendary “green flash” and the even rarer “blue flash,” tips on snorkeling, how to get cruise bargains and how to avoid sea-sickness, and mini-biographies of some fascinating cruising personalities. 

For ten years Lew served as the Cruise Editor for International Travel News, and has taken 34 cruises, spending over a year at sea.

In the spring of 2019, Lew and Susan took a cruise aboard the HAL ship Westerdam around Japan during the cherry blossom season, also stopping in the strange but interesting city of Vladivostok, Russia. In November 2019 they cruised from Barcelona to Miami aboard the Norwegian Star. (Note: In February 2020 the Westerdam was refused entry by five Asian ports due to Covid 19 infections, but was eventually allowed to disembark its passengers in Cambodia. The Norwegian Star 2019 trans-Atlantic crossing was its last before the coronavirus tsunami hit the cruise industry.)

Lew also gives you tips on how to prepare for a cruise, how to organize a cheap last minute “distressed” cruise, how to avoid the dreaded “single supplement” and the even more dreaded “norovirus,” and how to make your cruise tell a beautiful story!