Random thoughts from the sea
Days 76-77, 2025 Grand World Voyage Friday and Saturday, March 21-22, 2025; Richards Bay and Durban, South Africa. South Africa isn’t just all about the wildlife, but that’s a big part of the draw. And it never disappoints. While dozens of groups were leaving the ship yesterday and today on
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Day 73, 2025 Grand World Voyage Tuesday, March 18, 2025; At Sea. Can writing a travel blog be an albatross around my neck? I wondered about that yesterday morning, when I seriously considered staying on board during our port call in La Possession, Réunion. I’ve learned not to let external
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Day 72, 2025 Grand World Voyage Monday, March 17, 2025; La Possession, Réunion, Indian Ocean As I sit in the Crow’s Nest this morning, pondering whether I’ll go ashore today in La Possession, Réunion, (a story for another day), I realize it was five years ago today that I wrote
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Day 69, 2025 Grand World Voyage Friday, March 14, 2025; Indian Ocean, plus Maldives and Seychelles. We certainly are eating well on this cruise. I dread our overnight stop in Cape Town, when I will step on the scale in the fitness center. The only accurate readings come when we
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Day 65, 2025 Grand World Voyage Monday, March 10, 2025; Indian Ocean. We knew something was up when we started getting texts from a few friends back home. I was sitting in the Ocean Bar around 5 p.m. with my friends Tom and Monika, streaming a live feed of CBS’s
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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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