Random thoughts from the sea
Days 2-4, 2023 South America & Antarctica Grand Voyage Sunday-Tuesday, Oct. 8-10, 2023, Georgetown, Grand Cayman and sea days While I love visiting exotic and exciting ports, sea days may be my favorite, especially at the beginning of a long cruise. They give me a chance to unpack, learn my
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Day 40, South Pacific, Australia and New Zealand Cruise Friday, Nov. 11, 2022; Milford Sound, South Island, New Zealand. Today’s destination is acclaimed to be New Zealand’s most famous tourist destination, a world’s top travel destination and the eighth Wonder of the World (the latter according to Rudyard Kipling). And
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Day 11, South Pacific, Australia and New Zealand Cruise Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2022; At Sea, Pacific Ocean. I’m one to settle into a routine on the ship, especially on sea days. I start early, around 6 a.m. with coffee in the Lido. My usual table is available at that time,
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Day -2, Grand World Voyage 2020 Thursday, Jan. 2, 2020, Dallas Lately my days are divided in two categories – traveling or preparing to travel. The former is relaxing, but the latter can be stressful. And I am SO ready for the stress of preparation to end when I board
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In three weeks I’m setting off to explore new waters. I’ll board Holland America’s ms Zuiderdam to sail the northern Atlantic and trace the Voyage of the Vikings. This 35-day cruise starts and ends in Boston. It sails through New England, the Canadian Maritimes, Greenland and Iceland, then stops in
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Day 67, Grand Asia 2018 Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018, Suva, Fiji: After the South Pacific beaches and resorts of our last few ports, we are back in a city. Suva is the capital of Fiji, and our berth is on an industrial pier where giant forklifts move containers all day
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Day 66, Grand Asia 2018 Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018, Port Denarau, Fiji: I kept wandering through the same dozen shops, looking for the Fijian hot sauce I had seen an hour or so earlier. Of course, I never found it. A friend and I tendered ashore to Port Denarau and
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Day 5, Grand Asia 2017 Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017 – At Sea I booked my last cruise three weeks out. I booked the one before that six weeks before departure from Galveston on the way to Dubai. I love to make last-minute decisions to travel, especially when it is a
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