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Yearly Archive for 2012

Day #7: At Sea

If there’s an ideal day at sea for me, one at the end of a cruise is it. Why do I say this? I like having the opportunity to leisurely pack and get sorted our for the journey home. Also, sea days seem to last longer… it’s a nice bookend before transitioning back into the […]

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Today started rather unusually. I was up by 4:30 (nothing odd there), but Emerson awoke shortly after me. Being such an early hour, she watched Cinderella while Libby “slept in” until 6:30 or so. We went to breakfast and then returned to the cabin where Emerson took a nap at about 9:30. We then spent […]

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Well, it’s another Thanksgiving in the Caribbean… We awoke early today in order to take full advantage of our 7:00am arrival in St. Thomas. While most the the ship was still waking up, we three were taking a private tour of the island with my grandfather and mother. On prior visit to St. Thomas, Libby […]

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It’s not the destination; it’s the journey. This truism pretty much sums up our day. We passed up an otherwise delightful destination and leisurely day to go island hoping in search of additional “countries.” In this case, our objective was Anguilla — a British outpost that I couldn’t have identified on a map a few […]

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Day #3: At Sea

Today was a “sea day” en route to St. Maarten. I think some people really love their relaxing days at sea, but they’re not my favorite part of a cruise. Indeed, I think the last sea days I really relished were aboard Jade in 2008 (our first major cruise), which came after already spending a […]

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