December 31, 2023 Happy Birthday to me…. Yes – my Birthday is New Year’s Eve – it’s awesome – the entire world celebrates on my Birthday! For my Birthday, many family members gave me the ever-prized game points for Simhorseracing.com, my husband gave me 2 lovely pairs of earrings, my …
December 26-28, 2023 Brazil covers close to 50% of the landmass of South America -a little larger than the “lower 48” of the US and a population of 200,000,000. When you look at a map of South America, a large part of Brazil bumps out into the Atlantic like a …
After the Devil’s Island sail-by, we enjoyed two lovely sea days – Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. (I realize my life really is in the “amazing” category, and I honestly don’t have anything major to complain about – but as I’m human, I’ll whine about a few minor things along …
December 20-23, 2023 Barbados: Yes, John and I had been to the island in 2010 on the Jewel of the Seas. I recognized the cruise port and the series of art galleries and stores immediately outside of the port gates. Unfortunately, the last 13 years have not been kind to …
December 16-18, 2023 We had two sea days, where among other activities, I met up with some of my fellow bloggers, vloggers and Tic-Tokkers!. Back to Aruba! Although we spent 5 weeks on the island from mid-October-mid November, we’d missed a lot of the tourist highlights and some of the …
Our first day consisted of unpacking, organizing, re-organizing and settling in for our 9-month journey. Our front-and-center stateroom has a ledge in front of the window, big enough to lounge with added inflatable bed and cushions, creating a reading/ lounging nook. We brought plenty of books, and Royal Caribbean provided …
Dec. 8-10, 2023 People ask me “what we do with _____ while we’re away?” (car/house/bills, etc). The house is set up for AirBNB/ VRBO, we have a mail service that opens and scans our mail then emails us the scanned contents, and the cars has been going through an interesting …
May 2, 2023 A city with a rich maritime history since early Roman times, it lies on the deep Cherbourg Harbor on the little Cotentin peninsula, in the region of France known as Normandy. Cherbourg (with neighboring city Le Havre) sits at one of the shortest points between France and …
Transatlantic cruise on the Jewel of the Seas, May 2023 When doing a transatlantic (or most “repositioning”) cruises – you need to love sea days. Which is good, because on this particular crossing there were 9 of them. What do you do on a sea day, you ask? I tend …
Jewel of the Seas, April 29, 2023 On day 8 we arrived in the Azores – an island archipelago that is part of Portugal. This extremely clean city, first settled in the mid 15th century, has been a vital jumping off port for exploring the Americas. Its mild, subtropical climate, moderated …