Random thoughts from the sea
Day 50, Grand World Voyage 2020 Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020; Pape’ete, French Polynesia Why does Tahiti sound so much more exotic than the Cook Islands, Vanuatu or even Fiji or Tonga? We probably can credit Paul Gauguin, the artist who took up residence in Tahiti and caused quite a stir
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Day 48, Grand World Voyage 2020 Friday, Feb. 21, 2020; At Sea, South Pacific Ocean I woke up knowing this would be a red-letter day, and sure enough – there it was in our mail slot after breakfast! The notice that I had reached a new milestone in Holland America’s
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Day 47, Grand World Voyage 2020 Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020; Adamstown, Pitcairn Island “They came out to visit us. We welcomed them with open wallets!” I love the way fellow cruiser and blogger Jane Barbeau summarized our morning at Pitcairn Island. It was a combination of Black Friday frenzy and
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Day 44, Grand World Voyage 2020 Sunday, Feb. 16, 2020; Rapa Nui (Easter Island) Did the huge statues carved from volcanic ash walk across the island? How, on what appears to be a treeless island, could the creators roll the statues on logs? Would the weather and sea gods smile
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Day 39, Grand World Voyage 2020 Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020; San Antonio, Chile The best thing about today was hearing my name called from the Piano Bar this evening. Ivan ran out to the hallway to great me. He just joined the ship today and already was hard at work
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Day 37, Grand World Voyage 2020 Sunday, Feb. 9, 2020; Puerto Montt, Chili Fjords I thought I had successfully fought hints of a cold by taking zinc for a couple of days. My scratchy throat improved, as did my sniffles and sneezes. Well, last night the symptoms came back with
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Day 36, Grand World Voyage 2020 Saturday, Feb. 8, 2020; Scenic Cruising Chilean Fjords I don’t usually write a blog on sea days, but we have been sailing through some incredible scenery as we work our way north from Cape Horn in South America. We alternate between sailing off the
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Day 33, Grand World Voyage 2020 Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020; Ushuaia, Argentina If I took Interstate 35 south from Dallas, connecting on the appropriate roads through Mexico, Central America and South America, I would eventually end up on Route 3 at the end of the road (and the fin de
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Day 30, Grand World Voyage 2020 Sunday, Feb. 2, 2020; Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica Super Bowl Champion Chiefs!!! The #ChiefsKingdom reached all the way to the bottom of the world late tonight when Patrick Mahomes led the team to its first Super Bowl championship since 1970. (We had just moved to
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Day 28, Grand World Voyage 2020 Friday, Jan. 31, 2020; Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica If we were thrilled to be in Antarctica yesterday, today was simply stunning. I awoke at 4 a.m. and saw the sun hitting a distant mountain. The days start early and end late. By the time I
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