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Retired Rheumatologist Cruises the Globe

  |  Issue: April 2018  |  

Every day, Dr. Herzig and his wife email photos of their adventures to family and friends, and plan to create a scrapbook of their once-in-a-lifetime voyage.

With two-thirds of their trip left, who knows who they’ll meet, what they’ll discover or what they’ll experience.

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“Visiting all of these places is a lifelong dream,” says Dr. Herzig. “This cruise fulfilled most of the things we wanted to do in a matter of 141 days and not 10 years.”

Carol Patton is a freelance writer based in Las Vegas.

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