Currency: “officially” 878, realistically 1000 Argentinian pesos – $1 Jan. 15-22, 2024 The Falkland Islands gave us a rainbow – which meant it was raining, which in turn meant it was too windy and stormy to tender into port. Both our ship and the Celebrity Eclipse in front of us …
Jan 11-14, 2024 We entered Drake’s passage Jan. 11 – and definitely experienced the infamous “Drake Shake”. The waters of the Atlantic, the Pacific and Southern Oceans all meet and mingle – with their associated winds, currents and temperatures. This often creates conditions for waves of well over 20 feet …
Jan. 7-9, 2024 Sea days, for me, are a blend of exercise, blog work and fun social time. I get together with some fellow guitar players – the participants seem to ebb and flow, and the growing Tiktok/Instagram and bloggers group. You may recognize a few of the faces. We …
Jan. 5-6, 2023 We enjoyed our first overnight port in Buenos Aires, but also ended the first mini-segment – so some friends headed home, but I am sure new ones boarded. We planned a couple of different walking tours – one on each day. Day #1 – we got some …
Jan. 1- 4, 2024 Happy New Year! I am happy to report that at the end of day 25 on the cruise – my weight was exactly the same as when I boarded! Yay to averaging 13,000+ steps/day and hitting the gym almost every morning. Three relaxing days at sea …
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 …