Writer on Deck

Dear Cruise Diary Day 10– At Sea in the Atlantic Ocean April 30, 2013 One thing about an inside cabin is that you never had any light to indicate what time it was when you woke up. I slept in till 8 – no doubt in part because I stayed

Dear Cruise Diary Day 9– At Sea in the Atlantic Ocean April 29, 2013   I slept in again, after a pretty restless night. I kept waking up thinking it should be morning, but it would be just 2-something, then 4-something. I think the combination of changing time and eating

Dear Cruise Diary Day 8– At Sea in the Atlantic Ocean April 28, 2013   I woke up at 7 am, a little earlier than the last morning or two and enjoyed being lazy in the cabin and finishing my book on the morning TV show battles. To shake things

Dear Cruise Diary Day 7 – At Sea in the Atlantic Ocean April 27, 2013   This is the problem with not keeping up with the journal every day. Today is really Day 10 and I am trying to remember what I did on Day 7. I jotted down some

Dear Cruise Diary Day 6 – At Sea in the Atlantic Ocean April 26, 2013 Once again, I slept in and while I dressed for walking or perhaps taking the short stretching class poolside at mid morning, I did neither. Instead, I headed for the Windjammer, had my usual bagel

Today is Day 3 of seven consecutive sea days as we cruise from the Bahamas to Madeira, a Portuguese island group west of Morocco. I think most people cruise to visit distant ports, but transatlantic crossers know that the sea days can be special, too. My first transatlantic crossing was

Dear Cruise Diary Day 5 – At Sea in the Atlantic Ocean April 25, 2013   I’m not sure I would have woken in time for the 7 am stretching class had I not set my alarm last night. I managed to get a quick cup of coffee and a

Dear Cruise Diary Day 3 – Sea Day April 23, 2013   After another good night of sleep, I woke about 6:30 – just in time to dress, grab a cup of coffee and a little fruit and head to stretching at 7 a.m. The class was packed, so I

Today’s port call in Nassau, Bahamas, reminded me that I’ve now been cruising for 20 years. Nassau was the final port of my first cruise, back in 1993. I had just finished a couple of huge work projects, both ending with press conferences in New York City. Then Mother Nature