Random thoughts from the sea
Day 4, South Pacific, Australia and New Zealand Cruise Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022; At Sea, North Pacific Ocean My first stop this morning was the gym – sadly, not to work out, but to step on the ship’s scale. Its report was about what I imagined. My goal is to
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Day 55, Grand World Voyage 2020 Friday, Feb. 28, 2020; Nuku’alofa, Tonga Tonga was great (and hot) today, but more about that later. Our bigger news is changes in the itinerary, mostly due to COVID-19, aka the coronavirus. The Amsterdam will skip our Asia stops — four ports in Indonesia
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Day 52, Grand World Voyage 2020 Monday, Feb. 24, 2020; Rarotonga, Cook Islands I should have realized how small Rarotonga is when I tried to download its map on my Planet Earth phone app and couldn’t find one. As it turned out, it took little more than 30 minutes to
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Day 50, Grand World Voyage 2020 Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020; Pape’ete, French Polynesia Why does Tahiti sound so much more exotic than the Cook Islands, Vanuatu or even Fiji or Tonga? We probably can credit Paul Gauguin, the artist who took up residence in Tahiti and caused quite a stir
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Day 48, Grand World Voyage 2020 Friday, Feb. 21, 2020; At Sea, South Pacific Ocean I woke up knowing this would be a red-letter day, and sure enough – there it was in our mail slot after breakfast! The notice that I had reached a new milestone in Holland America’s
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Day 70, Grand Asia 2018 Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018, Pago Pago, American Samoa: If you are paying close attention, you might notice that yesterday was Day 69 and Saturday, Dec. 8. Today is Day 70 ad Saturday, Dec. 8. No, I did not make a mistake. We crossed the International
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