Random thoughts from the sea
Day 63, 2025 Grand World Voyage Saturday, March 8, 2025; Colombo, Sri Lanka. A great tour guide can make even a mediocre tour interesting. But combine a great guide with a fascinating tour, and you have a winner. That’s what I had today in Colombo, Sri Lanka, as we walked
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Day 59, 2025 Grand World Voyage Tuesday, March 4, 2025; Phuket, Thailand. I’ve always felt a special affinity for Thailand, even though I had never been there before today. It’s because I’ve always had Siamese cats, starting with our family’s Charley and Andrew of my teenage years. About the time
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Days 57-58, 2025 Grand World Voyage Sunday and Monday, March 2-3, 2025; Kuala Lumpur and Langkawi, Malaysia. I had no idea what to expect in Malaysia on this, my first visit to this southeast Asia country. What I found was a quick glimpse of a modern capital city and a
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Day 56, 2025 Grand World Voyage Saturday, March 1, 2025; Singapore. The only thing wrong with our call into Singapore today is that it was too short. Typically, we stay overnight, as we did on my previous three visits and were originally scheduled to on this cruise. But we lost
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Day 53, 2025 Grand World Voyage Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025; Bali, Indonesia. Bali is just as magical and mystical as you might imagine. It’s also packed with traffic, hot and at this time of year, has frequent and fierce rain storms. Let me just say that I have no idea
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Day 52, 2025 Grand World Voyage Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025; Komodo Island, Indonesia. Komodo Island — home of the largest lizard on earth, the Komodo Dragon, and the first of our two stops in Indonesia. It’s a bucket-list visit for many passengers. For some reason, the dragons have never enthralled
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Days 49-52, 2025 Grand World Voyage Saturday to Tuesday, Feb. 22-25, 2025; Darwin, Australia; Komodo Island, Indonesia; and At Sea. Once again, an early forecast of rain proved to be wrong, and we enjoyed a mostly sunny day in Darwin. A few clouds might have brought some relief from the
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Days 45-48, 2025 Grand World Voyage Tuesday to Friday, Feb. 18-21, 2025; Cairns, Queensland, Australia, and At Sea. Three consecutive sea days! What a welcome – and lazy – break. It’s not that we have been overly busy with a long string of port days. But the ship atmosphere changes
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Day 43, 2025 Grand World Voyage Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025; Airlie Beach, Queensland, Australia. Airlie Beach is a small resort town in Australia’s Whitsundays, a tropical island group that not only is a beautiful vacation spot, but also one of the gateways to the Great Barrier Reef. We are here
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Days 38-39, 2025 Grand World Voyage Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 11-12, 2025; Sydney, NSW, Australia. As the bug slowly made its way across the floor of the mall bathroom stall, all I could think as I lifted my feet was the passage from one of my favorite authors writing in
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