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Transcription: [00:07:08][[Applause]]
[00:07:30] [[upbeat orchestra music plays throughout]]

{SPEAKER name="Jeanne Porterfield"}
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This trip we had planned to travel light, but somewhere those plans went astray. Luckily, a most obliging man from the airlines offered to help us with all those last-minute things one thinks of to take along.
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Little did he know the feat he had undertaken.
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Well, that was an easy boarding for us.
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Our huge jet soared off and, once in the air, our Dutch treat began. We settled down to enjoy the steady stream of delicacies that appeared almost every mile of the 1,900 we had before reaching our destination.
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You know this was the kind of flight that made me think it would be just as much fun to keep on flying rather than getting back down to Earth, in more ways than one.
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The first part of our trip is to the three most important islands of the Dutch West Indies known as the ABC Islands. The three windward islands to the northeast and the country of Suriname you'll see in the second half of the program.
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As for the ABCs, instead of starting in alphabetical order, we're going to work backwards and start with the center island of the group, CuraƧao.