Random thoughts from the sea
Day 7, 2023 East Coast Voyage Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023, Bar Harbor, Maine, USA Today’s highlight was seeing the Big Five. No, not the big five safari animals. The big five lighthouses. Okay, it’s true — no actually names a big five lighthouses as far as I know. But this
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Day 6, 2023 East Coast Voyage Friday, Sept. 29, 2023, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Halifax is a great port for just walking the waterfront right from the ship. You can go along almost two miles of shops, pop-up and permanent restaurants, playgrounds, statues and museums. That’s just what I did
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Day 4, 2023 East Coast Voyage Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023, Charlotteville, Prince Edward Island, Canada Today we began retracing my steps from my July cruise through the Canadian Maritime Provinces. Our sail down the St. Lawrence River was mostly completed during Monday night, so yesterday while at sea there wasn’t
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Day 2, 2023 East Coast Voyage Monday, Sept. 25, 2023, Quebec, Canada I’m adding Quebec to my list of stunning cities. The Zaandam docked this morning at the edge of the Place Royale, in the lower section of the Old Quebec City, with a commanding view of Le Château Frontenac.
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Day -1, 2023 East Coast Voyage Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023, Montreal, Canada I was already on my flight this morning as the sun rose, heading for a Dallas connection from Fort Smith, Ark., to Montreal, Canada. Tomorrow I will board Holland America’s Zaandam for a 13-day sail up the Saint
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Day 71, 2023 North Atlantic Adventure Friday, July 21, Portland, Maine, USA. On the 28th day of the first cruise during which I blogged, I wrote about the 28 things I never did once on the ship. Things like ice skate, inline skate, or get kidnapped by pirates off the
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Days 69 and 70, 2023 North Atlantic Adventure Wednesday and Thursday, July 19-20, 2023; Sydney and Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Let the packing begin. Yes, I broke down and started packing on Wednesday and found a surprise! In one of my suitcases was the duffel bag “pillow gift” from the
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Day 68, 2023 North Atlantic Adventure Tuesday, July 18, 2023; Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. My love for sailing dates back to my junior high days, when I learned to sail at a camp in Arkansas. I loved the little Sunfish sailboats, with their single sail, and wooden centerboard, tiller
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Day 67, 2023 North Atlantic Adventure Monday, July 17, 2023; Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The temperature in my stateroom doesn’t vary much – hovering between 68- and 70-degrees F. I keep the thermostat on the lowest setting and adjust my clothes to match. So when I woke up
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Day 63 and 64, 2023 North Atlantic Adventure Thursday and Friday, July 13-14, 2023; Qaqortoq and Nanortalik, Greenland. As we wove our way through a field of icebergs off the southwest coast of Greenland on Thursday, I heard a sudden loud crack. The closest iceberg slowly started rolling. By the
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