With just 17 days until the end of our voyage, we are now on the last leg. So, it is with a lot of excitement, and a bit of melancholy, that I had been anticipating our dear friends (Tom, Charmaine, Jack, and Linda) joining the ship to cruise with us from L.A. to Miami, a…
Continue reading →Air travel has certainly changed since my first flight to Paris with my sister on that long ago summer trip to Europe. We are all too familiar now with heightened security, the impending danger of liquids, gels, shoes, and belts. But even onboard, the changes seem dramatic. The second leg of our trip, a twelve-hour…
Continue reading →Bags packed……check. At the airport……check. Passed security…..check. Waiting to board…..
Continue reading →Shoes. That’s what really separates the men from the women. And we girls love them….shoes, that is. The travel experts advise taking a maximum of three pairs of shoes on any trip. One for walking, a pair of sandals for warm weather, and a pair of reasonable dress shoes, whatever that means. That’s like being forced…
Continue reading →My first taste of real travel was when my sister and I spent 6 weeks in Europe one summer during college. I was 21, Marsha was 18. We were lucky to go. Looking back, my parents were selective visionaries for things that ended up really counting in my life and for which I am forever…
Continue reading →We just received our final travel documents…again. We still have the documents from the original six-month version of our trip that were already in the mail at the time it was cancelled. This new official document is actually more of a book, about 120 pages spiral bound. It is the bible for our cruise, tailored…
Continue reading →I’ve been having this subliminal fear that our trip could be thwarted again, that the ship would not be repaired on schedule or have enough time to make the long, slow journey from San Juan to Singapore. Do the math. 11,900 miles at about 16 or 17 knots per hour. That’s about 28 days without…
Continue reading →This giant “once-in-a-lifetime” cruise we were planning has so far taken me through every emotion, and I have yet to board the ship. And when we got the news that the trip was to be “abbreviated”, it felt like a balloon, blown up to that anxious tautness just before bursting, that suddenly flew away in…
Continue reading →We were supposed to be in the southern hemisphere this winter, when it is summer there. South America, Africa, Seychelles. Well, that part of the cruise was cancelled and we couldn’t quite get over it. Our calendar was totally empty and we just got back our refunded money that was already spent in our minds. So…
Continue reading →In the spirit of our upcoming voyage, here we are dressed for an 80s-themed costume party last Halloween as your Cruise Director Julie McCoy and Captain Merrill Stubing. Pretty scary.
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