Some Q&As with, particularly, our two captains helps to explain the differences between cruising, and Residential Cruising.
Editor’s Note: For many, the Panama Canal is a bucket list item. This is what it’s like, in three main steps: staging in Colón, the actual Canal transit, and regrouping in Panama City. Panama is so much more than just the Canal. -rc
Before we head into Panama and the Canal, we stop by the Dominican Republic and Jamaica, with a special event along the way.
Visiting Guadeloupe, Antigua, St. Kitts, Sint Maartin, and Tortola (BVI) on our way across the Caribbean.
90 days of sailing. What an interesting way to measure time and life. But then, measuring time is confounding. Measuring life is something I can get into, though.
There are a lot of “activities” available onboard, but one thing was lacking: a speaker series of talks by the residents themselves. We have a lot of interesting people aboard from a wide variety of professions, either retired or still active.
Visiting Saint Lucia, Martinique (site of the deadliest volcanic eruption of the 20th century), and Dominica.
A full-week’s crossing was a breeze. Then into the Caribbean, starting with Barbados and Grenada.
Editor’s Note: After Morocco, there are only a few stops before crossing to the Caribbean, so let’s get started with what Marti found along the way. (P.S.: the company has sent most of the marketing crew home to work, so no more videos for awhile, dang it! But Kit and I do take photos, so I’ll continue to illustrate Marti’s work with examples.) -rc
Editor’s Note: We aren’t always in port: we need time to get to the next port, which can take a day …or more. As you’ll see in a minute, that’s not boring for us, but rather a welcome time of rest. But first, we popped back up to Spain to pick up spare parts before touching the African continent again. -rc
Going to the highest point in town is something I love to do in my travels. I’ve taken cars, cable cars, trams, and elevators to the top — and of course I’ve walked. As we sailed into the Gibraltar harbor on October 20, that memory came to mind, acting as an inspiration to scale that high point, that point known as The Rock of Gibraltar.
Editor’s Note: Columnist Marti Eicholz reports on the ports we visit. Click her byline for a list of her columns. I still think every 10 days or so will be the right pace for these, but we’re already far enough behind that I’ll pick up the pace here and there when needed. -rc
Editor’s Note: We have a new columnist! We met Marti Eicholz on our way across the Atlantic in April before cooling our heels for four months in Belfast. We quickly became friends, and once we got going she started to write for her friends about the interesting ports we were visiting. I asked Marti if we could give her evocative writing a larger audience, and I was pleased she said yes.
“The round the world cruise that was stranded in Belfast. After months of delays, the ship finally set sail. Find out how the passengers stayed upbeat while their trip of a lifetime started with the stress of being stuck in Northern Ireland. We hear from those who are calling the cruise home for the next three years.” —BBC
I continue to get interview requests from the media. This one came in by email two days ago, but thankfully was told that my deadline was “in the next couple of days,” so hopefully this is good: I just hit Send on my reply, and now I’ll format it up into a post here. 🙂