Random thoughts from the sea
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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Cruise Flashback; Galveston to Dubai 2013 Barcelona, Spain; May 6, 2013 FEB. 5, 2021, DALLAS — Eight years ago our Barcelona port call held significance for two reasons. It was the midway point of the 30-day cruise from Galveston to Dubai, and it was the last of the familiar ports
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Cruise Flashback; Galveston to Dubai 2013 Alicante, Spain; May 5, 2013 FEB. 1, 2021, DALLAS — Somehow my innate sense of direction failed me in Alicante. I could see the Santa Bárbara castle above me, but where was that darned elevator that would spare me the long climb to the
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Cruise Flashback; Galveston to Dubai 2013 Gibraltar; May 4, 2013 JAN. 28, 2021, DALLAS — Many years ago at my mother’s urging, I read Paul Gallico’s novel “Scruffy.” Goodreads describes it as “the hilarious fictional account of the infamous apes of Gibraltar during World War II.” Legend has it that
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Cruise Flashback; Galveston to Dubai 2013 Madeira, Portugal; May 2, 2013 JAN. 22, 2021, DALLAS — My lasting impression of Madeira is of an overabundance of flowers. Who knew they are growing everywhere on this remote island. If that’s not enough, vendors sell cut flowers on every street corner. The
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Galveston to Dubai, 2013 JAN. 19, 2021, DALLAS — Just a year ago my sister Elaine and I set off on our world cruise. As we rounded South America, visited Antarctica and headed west from Chile to Easter Island and eventually New Zealand and Australia, we tracked our journey on
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Day 222, Staying at Home Friday, Oct. 30, 2020; Fort Smith, Arkansas After weeks of anxiety and angst on my part, my suitcase and I reunited after 218 days apart. I left it aboard the ms Amsterdam on March 22 in Fremantle, Australia, to return to Dallas via Sydney, just
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Day 1, Post Grand Half-World Voyage 2020 Tuesday, March 24, 2020; Home, Dallas, Texas I know I am really home because the laundry isn’t doing itself. There are no small navy bags to stuff, knowing that in less than 24 hours my clothes will come back clean, pressed and hanging.
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