Random thoughts from the sea
Day 59, 2025 Grand World Voyage Tuesday, March 4, 2025; Phuket, Thailand. I’ve always felt a special affinity for Thailand, even though I had never been there before today. It’s because I’ve always had Siamese cats, starting with our family’s Charley and Andrew of my teenage years. About the time
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Days 57-58, 2025 Grand World Voyage Sunday and Monday, March 2-3, 2025; Kuala Lumpur and Langkawi, Malaysia. I had no idea what to expect in Malaysia on this, my first visit to this southeast Asia country. What I found was a quick glimpse of a modern capital city and a
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Day 56, 2025 Grand World Voyage Saturday, March 1, 2025; Singapore. The only thing wrong with our call into Singapore today is that it was too short. Typically, we stay overnight, as we did on my previous three visits and were originally scheduled to on this cruise. But we lost
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Day 53, 2025 Grand World Voyage Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025; Bali, Indonesia. Bali is just as magical and mystical as you might imagine. It’s also packed with traffic, hot and at this time of year, has frequent and fierce rain storms. Let me just say that I have no idea
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Days 45-48, 2025 Grand World Voyage Tuesday to Friday, Feb. 18-21, 2025; Cairns, Queensland, Australia, and At Sea. Three consecutive sea days! What a welcome – and lazy – break. It’s not that we have been overly busy with a long string of port days. But the ship atmosphere changes
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Day 11, 2025 Grand World Voyage Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025; Lima, Peru. Peru deserves more time – two weeks, I would say. As it is, this is my second time here and we have two-and-a-half days. I still feel I’m only scratching the surface. This typically is an overnight port
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Day 5, 2025 Grand World Voyage Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025; Puerto Limón, Costa Rica. Five days in and we’re settling into a routine on the world cruise. To be honest, my routine doesn’t change greatly from cruise to cruise, but – like a new year – there’s something about the
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Day 1, 2025 Grand World Voyage Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025; Fort Lauderdale, Fla. I remember the excitement of returning to college after a summer away. Certainly not for the classes, assignments and exams. But rather to reunite with my friends from the previous year. I always wanted to get there
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Day 128 +7, 2024 Grand World Voyage Saturday, May 18, 2024; Fort Smith, Arkansas A week ago, I left the Zuiderdam in Fort Lauderdale. In some ways I feel I’ve been on dry land for much longer, but that is the way of life, it seems. This morning I’m watching
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Days 115, 119, 2024 Grand World Voyage Saturday and Wednesday, April 27 & May 1, 2024; Takoradi, Ghana, and Banjul, The Gambia Maybe it’s port overload after 40 so far. Maybe it’s because we were in these West African ports just a year ago, and they aren’t places I would
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