Note: I’ve noticed the images and text of some of my prior posts are kind of, to used the technical term, “screwed up.” As I’m already behind by many days in my posts and am working off of only an iPhone — I’ll have to fix these issues later. Apologies to my loyal readers… all […]
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Day #1: To Rome
Posted in Delta Airlines on May 26th, 2019
After a very busy week, we departed for the airport around 9:30am. Our flight to Detroit was uneventful despite some weather in the Detroit area, which thankfully missed both our arrival and departure. We had about a four hour layover, but we passed the time with an early dinner at P.F. Chang’s (where I’d eaten […]
Day #10 & #11, At Sea
Posted in Caribbean, Central America, South America, Zuiderdam on Nov 24th, 2018
I don’t have a tremendous amount to say about these days beyond the fact that I’ve personally enjoyed our days at sea far more than usual. We followed the standard pattern of breakfast in the Lido, walking laps around the deck (roughly 3 miles per day), some enrichment activities, Emerson at the kid’s club, a […]
For most folks, today was the “main event” for this cruise, it’s raison d’etre, why we’re all here. For Libby and me? Not so much. Transiting (or, in this case, partially transiting) the Panama Canal just wasn’t on our bucket list. It’s not that we didn’t think it was a monumental feat of engineering or […]
We sailed into the Bay of Cartagena under a sunny, mostly cloudless sky this morning. My first view of the city was of the gleaming white modern towers of the Bocagrande neighborhood, which is kind of Cartagena’s version of Miami / Miami Beach. Given that we’d never been here before and only had a half […]