Random thoughts from the sea
Day 64, Grand Asia 2018 Monday, Dec. 3, 2018, Mystery Island, Vanuatu: After feeling a bit of guilt over doing not much of anything yesterday at Easo, Lifou, I didn’t feel a bit of guilt today about my lack of ambition. Perhaps the most strenuous thing people did today was
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Day 63, Grand Asia 2018 Sunday, Dec. 2, 2018, Easo, Lifou, New Caledonia: This is the kind of port that leaves me in a quandary. It’s a small island whose attractions are mainly swimming and snorkeling. The ship charges $60 each for some excursions around the island, which seems a
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Day 62, Grand Asia 2018 Saturday, Dec. 1, 2018, Nouméa, New Caledonia: As we “turn the corner and head toward home,” as I wrote in my last blog post, we are in the South Pacific, mainly visiting relatively small islands in the South Pacific. Some are mainly beach stops, and
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Day 61, Grand Asia 2018 Friday, Nov. 30, 2018, At Sea: “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”– Steven King This afternoon our book club met to discuss our third book, The Dry, by Jane Harper (a crime drama set during an Australian drought). Holland America provides dozens of copies of the
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Day 59, Grand Asia 2018 Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018, Sydney, Australia: I awoke to thunder and lightning, and a check of the radar on my smartphone showed the storm was right over the city. Fortunately for us, it passed by midmorning and even the promised rain after that was relatively
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Day 58, Grand Asia 2018 Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2018, Sydney, Australia: Our shuttle driver said, “Better get your outside activities in today. Tomorrow we are expecting more rain than we have had so far all year.” And it’s almost December. So with that in mind, I set off on a
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Day 57, Grand Asia 2018 Monday, Nov. 26, 2018, At Sea: Put a few hundred strangers together on a ship for a couple of months, and you are sure to get rumors flying around. This cruise is no exception; I would even say there seem to be more than usual
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Day 56, Grand Asia 2018 Sunday, Nov. 25, 2018, Mooloolaba, Australia: Sometimes plans go astray, and this was one of those days. I had planned to meet up with a couple of fellow passengers to go ashore, but one was under the weather. Then I missed the other because of
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Day 53, Grand Asia 2018 Thursday, Nov. 22, 2018, Cairns, Australia: Happy Thanksgiving! We are 16 hours ahead of home (Central time in the U.S.), so we celebrate early. Tonight’s dinner included a plate full of turkey, dressing, sweet potatoes and the rest of the traditional meal. I had a
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Day 52, Grand Asia 2018 Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2018, At Sea: If you liked summer camp, you would love sea days on the Amsterdam. We are just finishing up our third consecutive sea day after a few weeks of ports with only the occasional sea day thrown in. It has
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