Random thoughts from the sea
Day 10, 2024 Majestic Japan Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024; Dutch Harbor, Alaska We should have known that a 53-day cruise without a single tender port was too good to be true. A U.S. navy ship pulled rank and bumped us from today’s assigned pier in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, so we
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Day 10, 2024 Ultimate Alaska Tuesday, June 18, 2024; Dutch Harbor, Alaska. It’s rare for a cruise ship to stop in Dutch Harbor on the island of Unalaska in the Aleutian Islands. It is sometimes on Holland America’s cruises between Japan and the U.S. West Coast, including the Grand Asia
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Day 7, Grand Asia 2018 Saturday, Oct. 6, 2018, Dutch Harbor, Alaska: Rugged mountains, eagles and whales – Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska delivered it all. The day started out with questionable weather as the predicted rain came in late morning. The lines for the three school
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Day 6, Grand Asia 2017 Friday, Oct. 6, 2017 – At Sea The disappointing news came at 11 a.m. this morning, when the captain announced we would not stop tomorrow as planned in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, Our window of good weather is closing. Winds at the port in the Aleutians
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