Hello All,

Today I have for you a look into the not too distant past. In years past the daily newspaper onboard the DELTA QUEEN was much different than what you see aboard her in a more modern era. Things were simpler and a little more home-spun.

I am going to paste to this blog entry a daily paper from the first day of a Kentucky Lake cruise back in 1959. Since my scanner would not accept a legal sized document (I have to work on that) so, I recreated it in a Microsoft...

Travis Vasconcelos

Hello all,

This time I am going to include a little known parody song from the Entertainment Staff (who will go un named) of the MISSISSIPPI QUEEN back in late 1994. It is interesting to reflect on their thoughts here as the new AMERICAN QUEEN was with in 6 months of her first sailings and they were thinking about their futures.

Having been on the last passenger sailing of the MISSISSIPPI QUEEN, I thought this would be a good time to reflect on that experience.
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Travis Vasconcelos

Welcome to my attempt at posting a blog on here. My hope is that I will add interesting things from time to time from my archives. Things I hope all will find interesting.

To get things started, I was looking around the internet today and found a video of the history of the BELLE OF LOUISVILLE on the BELLE's website.

Truly this is the best video produced on the history of the boat I have seen. There are alot of pictures with in the video which I have never seen...

Travis Vasconcelos