Random thoughts from the sea
I thought I would be blogging from the deck of a cruise ship this month, after 810 days stuck on land. My plan was to fly with my two sisters to Amsterdam today and board Holland America’s ms Volendam, sailing as far north as Svalbard and as far south as
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Sept. 25, 2021, SANTA FE, NM — How can time fly and stand still at the same time? It seems my summer in Santa Fe just started, but in actuality I’ve been here almost four months and will return to Dallas in a week. It’s obvious to blog readers that
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Aug. 20, 2021, SANTA FE, NM — The distinctive buzz interrupted my reading. I sat still as the little black hummingbird approached a plant in the desert garden just outside the patio railing. He — or she? — hovered, but didn’t find a bloom. The hummer moved toward the small
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JULY 9, 2021, SANTA FE, NM — It’s been 473 days since I was last on a cruise ship. It will be another 338 days until I cruise again. That is, if all goes as planned. I’m using a pencil, not a pen. Social media is awash in rumors and
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Cruise Flashback; Galveston to Dubai 2013 Dubai, United Arab Emirates; May 21, 2013 APRIL 8, 2021, DALLAS – My strongest take-away from Dubai is that there must be lots more people than I thought with money who have the interest and financial resources to live in modern skyscrapers. As I
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Cruise Flashback; Galveston to Dubai 2013 At Sea; May 15-20, 2013 MARCH 25, 2021, DALLAS – As we left Aqaba, Jordan, in 2013, my cruise was nearing its end. I would get off in our next port, Dubai. It is on the Persian Gulf on the other side of the
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Cruise Flashback; Galveston to Dubai 2013 Petra/Wadi Rum, Jordan; May 14, 2013 MARCH 5, 2021, DALLAS – When I first saw the film Lawrence of Arabia decades ago, the desert environment captivated me. Sure, there was romanticism to the epic story, but I wanted to see the real places where
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Cruise Flashback; Galveston to Dubai 2013 Safaga/Luxor, Egypt; May 13, 2013 FEB. 19, 2021, DALLAS – Among my lasting memories of Egypt are seeing buildings, tombs and monuments that are thousands of years old; evidence of societies that are in some ways very different than my own; and sobering effects
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Cruise Flashback; Galveston to Dubai 2013 Suez Canal, Egypt; May 11, 2013 FEB. 12, 2021, DALLAS – There are two great Canals cutting through continents – the Panama Canal and the Suez Canal. They are very different. To cross between the Caribbean and the Pacific through Panama, you must go
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Cruise Flashback; Galveston to Dubai 2013 Cairo, Egypt; May 10, 2013 FEB. 9, 2021, DALLAS – Only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still stands – the Great Pyramid of Giza. I feel so lucky to have visited it up close in 2013. Our timing was fortuitous.
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