Random thoughts from the sea
Days 17-18, 2024 Ultimate Mediterranean Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 25-26, 2024; Rome, Italy. Oh, to be Jeff Bezos! Actually, maybe only to have an extra $9,000 laying around. I suppose it is wrong to have such thoughts of envy – the fourth of the seven deadly sins – while walking
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Day 16, 2024 Ultimate Mediterranean Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024; Lucca, Italy. Alongside the giants of Tuscany (Florence and Pisa) sits the more manageable city of Lucca. Today we wandered the city from inside its intact 2.5 miles of ancient wall. Being a Sunday morning, the streets and plazas were somewhat
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Day 15, 2024 Ultimate Mediterranean Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024; Florence, Italy For all the traveling I’ve done, I haven’t seen much of Italy. I loved Venice, where my sisters, mother and I stayed before joining a Princess cruise in 2007. Imagine my surprise when Mom bought a crystal chandelier in
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Day 12, 2024 Ultimate Mediterranean Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024; Casablanca/Marrakesh, Morocco Is Marrakesh really mystical? My generation grew up humming along to Marrakesh Express (thanks to songwriter Graham Nash and Crosby, Stills and Nash). I had vague images of mysterious markets filled with the danger of snake charmers, the sensuality
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Day 9, 2024 Ultimate Mediterranean Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024; Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal Alas, my plan to enjoy my favorite cocktail – a gin and tonic – at Peter’s Café Sport in Horta, Azores, went awry. Seas too rough for tendering ashore caused us to miss yesterday’s port call after
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Day 1, 2024 Ultimate Mediterranean Saturday, Nov. 9, 2024; Fort Lauderdale, Florida After a whirlwind 16 days on land, it’s great to be back on a “Dam” ship, as Holland America cruisers like to say. This time, I’m on the Volendam for a 42-day cruise from Florida to the Mediterranean
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Day 11 post-cruise, 2024 Majestic Japan Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024; Galveston, Texas I knew something was up when in the course of an hour or two I started getting notices of a few dozen new subscribers to my blog. I hadn’t published a post in several days, so this was
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Day 53, 2024 Majestic Japan Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024; At Sea, North Pacific Ocean Just one more “sleep,” as they say, and this cruise will be over. Our final port was Hilo on the Big Island of Hawaii last Friday. I finally met up with my friend Scot, who has
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Days 45-47, 2024 Majestic Japan Tuesday-Thursday, Oct. 15-17, 2024; Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii I leaned in close to the Sephora store greeter, somewhat embarrassingly asking in a whisper: “This may sound weird, but is there a mascara called “Better Than Sex?” The Gen-Z young woman laughed and replied unabashedly in a
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Day 41, 2024 Majestic Japan Saturday, Oct. 12, 2024; 25°29’8” N 174°44’22” E (North Pacific Ocean) Two items in the news caught my attention in the last 24 hours – and neither has anything to do with American election politics. First, a Japanese grassroots organization (Nihon Hidankyo) of atomic bomb
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