Month: April 2013

Dear Cruise Diary Day 6 – At Sea in the Atlantic Ocean April 26, 2013 Once again, I slept in and while I dressed for walking or perhaps taking the short stretching class poolside at mid morning, I did neither. Instead, I headed for the Windjammer, had my usual bagel

Today is Day 3 of seven consecutive sea days as we cruise from the Bahamas to Madeira, a Portuguese island group west of Morocco. I think most people cruise to visit distant ports, but transatlantic crossers know that the sea days can be special, too. My first transatlantic crossing was

Dear Cruise Diary Day 5 – At Sea in the Atlantic Ocean April 25, 2013   I’m not sure I would have woken in time for the 7 am stretching class had I not set my alarm last night. I managed to get a quick cup of coffee and a

Dear Cruise Diary Day 3 – Sea Day April 23, 2013   After another good night of sleep, I woke about 6:30 – just in time to dress, grab a cup of coffee and a little fruit and head to stretching at 7 a.m. The class was packed, so I

Today’s port call in Nassau, Bahamas, reminded me that I’ve now been cruising for 20 years. Nassau was the final port of my first cruise, back in 1993. I had just finished a couple of huge work projects, both ending with press conferences in New York City. Then Mother Nature

Think of Dear Cruise Diary as my travel journal. These entries will outline the Five Ws (who, what, where, when, maybe why) of my trips. There are probably a lot of details that only interest me, but it’s a good reference for future trips and maybe a memoir one day!

It’s early afternoon and I am sitting in the poolside shade watching a line-dance class and thinking it looks like pretty good exercise while having fun. Maybe tomorrow. Today is Day 2, the first full day of my 30-day Mariner of the Seas cruise from Galveston to Dubai. Technically it