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this nutso frenetic wanderlust grabbed me so long ago. And … I’ve never stopped since I scampered up the gangway of the SS Ile de France, sailing from New York to France as a 6-year-old with parents and nanny in tow. That four-month stint as a wide-eyed traveler opened the floodgates of what was to follow. Eight months as a Semester-At-Sea student sailing around the world for the first time. Ten weeks behind Russia’s “Iron Curtain” to the USSR and the Eastern Block countries in 1969 during the Cold War |