Random thoughts from the sea
Day 55, Grand World Voyage 2020 Friday, Feb. 28, 2020; Nuku’alofa, Tonga Tonga was great (and hot) today, but more about that later. Our bigger news is changes in the itinerary, mostly due to COVID-19, aka the coronavirus. The Amsterdam will skip our Asia stops — four ports in Indonesia
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Day 54, Grand World Voyage 2020 Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020; At Sea, South Pacific Happy Ash Thursday! Yes, you read that right. Ash Thursday. After I went to bed last night after the Mardi Gras party on board, we crossed the International Date Line. We turned our clocks a whole
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Day 52, Grand World Voyage 2020 Monday, Feb. 24, 2020; Rarotonga, Cook Islands I should have realized how small Rarotonga is when I tried to download its map on my Planet Earth phone app and couldn’t find one. As it turned out, it took little more than 30 minutes to
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Day 50, Grand World Voyage 2020 Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020; Pape’ete, French Polynesia Why does Tahiti sound so much more exotic than the Cook Islands, Vanuatu or even Fiji or Tonga? We probably can credit Paul Gauguin, the artist who took up residence in Tahiti and caused quite a stir
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Day 48, Grand World Voyage 2020 Friday, Feb. 21, 2020; At Sea, South Pacific Ocean I woke up knowing this would be a red-letter day, and sure enough – there it was in our mail slot after breakfast! The notice that I had reached a new milestone in Holland America’s
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Day 47, Grand World Voyage 2020 Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020; Adamstown, Pitcairn Island “They came out to visit us. We welcomed them with open wallets!” I love the way fellow cruiser and blogger Jane Barbeau summarized our morning at Pitcairn Island. It was a combination of Black Friday frenzy and
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Day 44, Grand World Voyage 2020 Sunday, Feb. 16, 2020; Rapa Nui (Easter Island) Did the huge statues carved from volcanic ash walk across the island? How, on what appears to be a treeless island, could the creators roll the statues on logs? Would the weather and sea gods smile
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Day 42, Grand World Voyage 2020 Friday, Feb. 14, 2020; Valentine’s Day At Sea The first thing I noticed about today’s early afternoon chocolate surprise treat was that it wasn’t chocolate. Maybe that was the surprise. Instead it was a scrumptious bite of shortbread with a strawberry icing. I had
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Day 39, Grand World Voyage 2020 Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020; San Antonio, Chile The best thing about today was hearing my name called from the Piano Bar this evening. Ivan ran out to the hallway to great me. He just joined the ship today and already was hard at work
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Day 37, Grand World Voyage 2020 Sunday, Feb. 9, 2020; Puerto Montt, Chili Fjords I thought I had successfully fought hints of a cold by taking zinc for a couple of days. My scratchy throat improved, as did my sniffles and sneezes. Well, last night the symptoms came back with
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