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Gorgeous Galapagos!
It was a long day. We were up at 4am and off the ship by 6am for a three and a half hour bus ride to Guayaquil Airport. We passed through Manta Ecuador, home of the panama hat and beautiful lush scenery along the way,. We learned that Ecuador is the leading exporter of tuna…
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TEQUILA
đ¶âŠ.wasting away again in Margaritaville. Searchinâ for my lost shaker of salt. Salt! Salt! Salt! đ¶. Jimmy Buffet may have made margaritas and tequila famous with this song, but in reality tequila has been around at least since the 1500s. Tequila is the ancient indigenous or Nahuatl word meaning âthe place of harvesting plants.â They…
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Zihuatanejo (Ixtapa), Acapulco & Puerto Chiapas and Sea Days
The weather has been wonderful as we sail along the Pacific coast of Mexico. Some days the ocean has been like glass. The weather Gods are really making up for all that bad weather at the start. ZIHUATANEJO was a tender stop where we anchored nearby in the ocean. Since I didnât have a tour…
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MĂ©xico es muy hermoso!!
We have several stops in Mexico along the way – Ensenada, Manzanillo, Zihuatanejo (Ixtapa), Acapulco, and Puerto Chiapas. My cooking class in Ensenada was cancelled due to âmuddy roads & inclement weatherâ. Not sure where they were taking us to learn how to make fish tacos, but it was raining again. I guess we were…
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ON BOARD, AND SAILINGâŠ
I am somewhere off the coast of Mexico bear the bottom of the Baha Peninsula. The weather has finally started to warm up and we havenât had rain since yesterday. The skies are still cloudy and the sun is weak but it is now somewhere in the 60s I believe. Much better than when I…
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On The Road AgainâŠ
After an almost three year hiatus from cruising, well not quite. I managed to slip in a couple of cruises in November & December 2021 and all went well. So I am off again on another Around The World (ATW) Cruise. This is actually the 2020 ATW cruise that was cancelled in March of 2020…
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Coronavirus – part 2
What a difference a day makes! One moment I am sailing around the world with wonderful friends – old and new – and the next moment I am in the Sheraton Rio hotel overlooking its own private beach and the beach at LeBlon. Beautiful setting in which to wind down after a few hectic days.…
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ECUADOR – Manta, Montecristi & Panama Hats
So! Like me, did you all think Panama hats came from Panama? Wrong! They come from Ecuador. Montecristi, Ecuador. Where they have been making them, by hand, for hundreds of years. One reason why they are called Panama hats maybe because they were shipped out of Panama. And another reason maybe because President Roosevelt was…
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CORONAVIRUS
I am sure everyone has been closely following the news about the coronavirus out of China. But probably not as close as those of us on board our Around the World cruise with scheduled stops in many ports in Asia. Every night it seems this virus has increased in numbers and deaths, and has spread…
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EL SALVADOR – Acajutla & San Salvador
Today is the first time since we have been hearing about the coronavirus, that the people checking and greeting us at the port were wearing masks and checking our temperature as we came ashore. We have all been hearing about the plight of some cruise ships over in Asia but so far we are happy…
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