Day 41…Still out to sea…Heading to Australia…Immigration and many time changes…
Tomorrow morning, the ship will ease its way into Darwin, Australia, gliding into yet another port on this long voyage. Even...
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Day 40…Fantastic day with Rita and Gerhard in Bali!…
Seeing our dear friends Rita and Gerhard in Bali yesterday was the best possible port-of-call tour we could have imagined, the...
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Day 38…Out to sea…What happened with our requested cabin change?…
Three weeks after I injured my knee in that unfortunate stumble in the corridor, we decided not to push the issue...
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Day 36…Singapore, port of call…Waiting for several hours to access our cabin…Rough night…
The last time I remember looking at the clock, it blinked back at me with an unforgiving 4:00 am. Only three...
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Day 35…Last day of the second and final leg of our 47-night, back-to-back cruise…Packing today…Changing cabins tomorrow…
Over the years of cruising, we’ve learned many lessons, some the hard way, and recently, one of those lessons resurfaced with...
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Day 34…Not the Thanksgiving we expected…
Thanksgiving didn’t unfold quite as we’d imagined this year, although life on the road—or, in this case, at sea—rarely adheres to...
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Day 32…Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate…Remembering Thanksgiving in the bush November 2018, menu included…
The two days leading up to our Thanksgiving dinner felt like a marathon held under the unrelenting African sun. With the...
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Day 30…Another sea day…Five days until we arrive in Singapore…
In just five days, we’ll be pulling into Singapore, our next port of call, and one that always feels a bit like...
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Day 29…Another sea day on our way to Singapore…Nomad luncheon today at noon…
Today, we’re attending a luncheon in the main dining room with a handful of fellow nomads, people who, like us, have...
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Day 28…Today is the beginning of seven sea days as we make our way to Singapore…Meeting many of our readers…
Today marks the beginning of seven uninterrupted sea days as we make our way across the Indian Ocean toward Singapore, a...
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