Random thoughts from the sea
Days 101 and 103, 2024 Grand World Voyage Saturday and Monday, April 13 and 15, 2024; Maputo, Mozambique, and Durban, South Africa. I’m back in two African ports that I really never saw last year, when our overland safari departed from Maputo, Mozambique, and returned to Durban, South Africa. In
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Day 97, 2024 Grand World Voyage Tuesday, April 9, 2024; Zanzibar, Tanzania. If yesterday was all about the natural side of Zanzibar, today is about Zanzibar City and its historic center of Stone Town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Again, we took a half-day excursion through our travel agency. We
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Day 96, 2024 Grand World Voyage Monday, April 8, 2024; Zanzibar, Tanzania. We’ve arrived in Africa! And let me just start out saying that Zanzibar is a great introduction to this vast continent. Yes, I’ve been to Africa before, but never Tanzania. It is in fact the 13th African country
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Days 92-93, 2024 Grand World Voyage Wednesday and Thursday, April 4-5, 2024; Victoria, Mahé, Seychelles. When I imagine faraway island paradises, it’s hard to beat the Indian Ocean nations of Maldives and Seychelles. I was disappointed in 2020 when our grand world voyage ended abruptly due to the pandemic before
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Day 94, Grand World Voyage Friday, April 7, 2023; Tangier, Morocco. I was looking forward to returning to Tangier, Morocco. I wanted to go back and wander through the souq, or market. In 2011, we ended our overview tour there but were rushed through its winding walkways by our guides.
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Day 93, Grand World Voyage Thursday, April 6, 2023; Casablanca, Morocco. Today I am thankful for several things. Foremost is that I am still sailing along on this amazing cruise, even after injuring my knee. I’m thankful that my knee isn’t dislocated and I’m not spending today on shore for
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Day 91, Grand World Voyage Tuesday, April 4, 2023; Agadir, Morocco. In what was a new shore excursion experience for me, I saw the treetops of Agadir from my gurney in the back of an ambulance. I was off to the Clinique Al Massira, a local hospital, for an MRI
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Day 86, Grand World Voyage Thursday, March 30, 2023; Dakar, Senegal. As we waited in one of the lounges to disembark in Dakar, Senegal, on a private tour, the voice of the captain came over the public address system. We would not disembark in this port. The news was full
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Day 85, Grand World Voyage Wednesday, March 29, 2023; Banjul, The Gambia. In 1977, more than half of the U.S. population at the time watched the TV miniseries “Roots.” I was just out of college and remember being mesmerized by the story about the young African Kunta Kinte, who was
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Days 81 and 82, Grand World Voyage Saturday and Sunday, March 25-26, 2023 Takoradi, Ghana, and Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Between them, the west African countries of Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) account for about two-thirds of the world’s cocoa production. Yet less than 6 percent of the global chocolate
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