Ok, here's a mishmash of thoughts, ideas, and posts …

First off, the Salsa Cruise! Exciting … Our next cruise is approaching fast, and this salsa cruise is huge. It's our biggest dance cruise yet, and it's 9 days to South America, leaving out of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and even has a layover of a day in Buenos Aires.

You can see the salsa cruise on Facebook, or see the Salsa Cruise Website. Ideally, you'll want to check and join both.

The cruise is almost sold out, and since it's so massive, requires some pretty serious planning. If you are considering it, you must start planning now.

And yes, I know, a lot have asked for another Caribbean cruise! We're on it, and expect our next cruise to sail (after this one) in September of 2011. Details may be coming shortly!

As for Hawaii, this is huge. There's not a person reading this whom shouldn't be planning to join us in Hawaii (that's a double negative – yikes). To put it simply, you should be coming on this incredible dance vacation. This vacation is for you, it's cheap, and it's fun, and it's … well … it's in Hawaii!

See the Hawaii Salsa Festival website!

Really, this is a great vacation, and highly recommended. It will give you a chance to try out your brand new salsa shoes, but really, who wears salsa shoes on a beach (or by the pool for that matter). Great music and great social dancing highlight this event, year after year.

Get your early bird tickets now …

Finally, Bachata! The bachata dance craze is taking over the world. Really, it seems like it's taking over the world. Everywhere I turn, there are bachata festivals popping up. Have you noticed this?

Aw, come on, I know what you're thinking. A bachata festival? Really? And my answer is an amazing yes… Really.

Not only yes, there really is one. But how about, "yes, I went last year", or "yes, it was awesomely fun", or even "yes, it's one of the best dance events I've been to in quite some time". I know … hard to believe, even for me.

Let me explain, after all, I am … SalsaCrazy. I existed before congress were around. Before dance troupes. I danced when there were dinosaurs roaming the earth (ok, maybe not that far back). However, as I travelled to the Bachata Festival, after visiting every salsa event in the world, for over 15 years, I was taken back to …

The beginning! Yes, very much like when salsa was "young", this bachata festival was just plain fun. It was before the endless dance troupes. Before the endless competitions. Before the endless "let's make the dance harder" instructors, and before everyone strives to make the dance latin ballroom (which, for example, contemporary salsa is now). The bachata festival is a dance in its infancy, and it's exciting!

It's exciting to be part of it. It's exciting to dance to it. It's exciting to hear the new music acts. It's just plain fun! It's fun in it's simplicity (which I'm sure will be gone all too soon – as that seems to be the way of swing, salsa … and many social dances).

I had a blast last year, and so did every single attendee that I ran into!

This years San Francisco Bachata Festival, takes place in San Francisco, at the Parc 55 Hotel, July 17th-19th, and is preceded by no less than 5 days of pre-parties and events. It's a massive, exciting affair, completely grounded in social dancing, and fun. Wow – novel concept indeed!

Yes, the best dancers from all over the world do attend!
Yes, workshops and classes are taught to everyone, at all levels!
Yes, the best Bachata bands play every night (including Domenic Marte, headling on Saturday!

And finally, yes, whomever you are, if you dance bachata, you should be there!

Oh, and did I mention, it takes place in the same hotel, on the same days, as the San Francisco Salsa Festival? Yes it does!

And one ticket gets you access to both!

Salsa Crazy Worldwide Salsa Dance News! The third SalsaCrazy Salsa Dance Video pod Cast.   This is our third Worldwide SalsaCrazy Salsa Dancing podcast (Edition: 6/20/08).  Did you miss Episode #1 and Episode #2? It's VERY hot…

This video podcast covers worldwide salsa dancing news (and you've seen, we've been posting the San Francisco Bay Area salsa news on www.SalsaCrazySF.com – for local San Francisco Bay Area information and video podcasts, please refer to that Website).

From now on, this is the Podcast that goes with this blog, SalsaCrazy Worldwide Salsa Dance News.  Let me know what ya' think of our third episode, SalsaCrazy@SalsaCrazy.com!

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Of course, as mentioned in the video cast, here are the key points:

1) SalsaCrazy Advanced Salsa Dance Mastery System is now on Pre-Order Sale!
http://www.SalsaCrazyAdvanced.com

2) Mexican Riviera Salsa Dance Cruise has now been announced…
http://www.SalsaCruiseCrazy.com – All are welcome!

See ya' out dancing! Keep it crazy…
SC