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@ranchandcoast RANCH & COAST MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2024 81 Holland America Line's 1,432-passenger Zaandam home ports in San Diego in winter, and spends the summer in Alaska's Glacier Bay National Park destinations | transportation Detour embarkation port was my favorite. As a native San Diegan who grew up within eyesight of the bay, few journeys were easier than those that started with a taxi down to the Port of San Diego. Even when planned at the last minute, a winter week in Mexico with easy airport connections was a joy. A dozen years ago, I served as the anonymous cruise critic for a division of USA Today. e job sounds like a dream, and often it was, in spite of the busy schedule — up to three cruises a month, sometimes jumping off after a week on one ship to embark on another, often out of the same port, the same day. One Cruising, From San Diego and Beyond AN EXPERT'S GUIDE TO SUCCESSFUL VOYAGES ON THE SEA BY DAVID SWANSON | PHOTOGRAPHY BY DAVID SWANSON >>