Rendezvous in Cape Town

“Let’s meet in Cape Town!”, we promised, with a wink, when we saw Andy and Tammy before this cruise began. We live in the same hometown, and met when they were the Cruise Director and Assistant Cruise Director on our long Insignia voyage. While we’ve been on Marina, they were back on Insignia, and our…

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Paradise Island

One of Polynesia’s best-kept secrets, Huahine, has steep mountains descending into protected azure bays with white sand beaches, sacred blue-eyed eels, mystical ancient temples and archeological sites, lush forests, and untamed landscape. Scarcely developed, It is said to be one of the more interesting islands to explore. But, the longer I spend in Polynesia, the…

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Second Chance

We stood before King Neptune once again to seek permission to cross the equator as we sailed northward this time.  At 1100 hours on June 10, 2015, having missed the first Crossing Ceremony, Dean, still a Polliwog, performed his dutiful initiation, kissed the fish, and was anointed with the green slime….thus elevating his status from…

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Polliwog No More

If you’ve been checking our itinerary you know that I am woefully behind on my blog, since in real time we are now in French Polynesia and my recent posts show us still in Southeast Asia. I am about to recount a momentous event, however, that occurred over a month ago, and will actually happen…

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