Our quest to visit 7 continents, 100 countries, and all 50 states…
Posted in Grand Cayman on Nov 26th, 2011
We awoke early and finished breakfast before the ship dropped its anchor at 8am. Libby, Emerson, mom, and I were among the first ‘landing party’ of the morning, arriving on shore a little after 8:30. Some Caribbean Islands wow you with their scenic splendor immediately, Grand Cayman isn’t one of those places (at least not […]
Posted in Navigator of the Seas on Nov 22nd, 2011
We started our day at 6:30am by heading down to Cafe Promenade for coffee (for us) and milk (for Emerson). Not surprisingly, we ran into Mom and Pop already there. We spent some time chatting before everyone headed upstairs to breakfast in the Windjammer. Following breakfast, we walked around the upper decks watching Emerson frolic […]
Posted in Navigator of the Seas on Nov 22nd, 2011
We departed home around 7:00am and had a pleasant and uneventful drive to Port Everglades down in Fort Lauderdale. Following a couple of rest stops, a coffee break, and a refueling, we arrived at the port a little after 11:30. I deposited Mom, Pop, Libby, and Emerson at the terminal with the luggage and proceeded […]
Posted in Grand Cayman, Haiti, Jamaica, Navigator of the Seas on Nov 20th, 2011
We’re off to Ft. Lauderdale to catch our (almost) annual Thanksgiving cruise aboard Navigator of the Seas. We’ve done this yearly since 2009, skipping 2010 because Libby was too far along in her pregnancy to cruise. In fact, we were aboard Navigator in ’09 for a four-day sailing to Cozumel, Mexico. This year, we’ll be […]
Posted in Delta Airlines on Jul 20th, 2011
We departed from New York late (which reminded me of why I dislike returning through NY airports) due to ground-based airplane traffic gridlock at JFK, a slow boarding process, and a reconfiguration of runways (just as we were #1 for takeoff). All told, we landed in Tampa around 12:30am, reaching our home at approximately 1:40am. […]