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GUATEMALA – and the beautiful city of Antigua!
In 1996, Jen Snyder and I, set off for Antigua, Guatemala for a month to go to school and learn Spanish. As I recall, it was Jen’s idea and I just tagged along. They put us in two different homes, so we could not speak English with one another, with local families, and we went…
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MEXICO – Puerto Chiapas
The southern most state in Mexico is Chiapas. It has one of the prettiest ports, in my opinion, along the Mexican coast. Many times we pull in between the tankers and container/cargo ships in industrial ports. This port was upgraded from a small fishing & agricultural centre, hoping to attract cruise ships as well as…
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MEXICO – Acapulco
Sunday in Acapulco, and I elected not to do a tour but instead along with several old friends from the 2018 ATW (Around the World), we decided to walk a few blocks to an old church and marketplace. We were inundated with taxi drivers who insisted they could drive us there, but we kept saying…
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MEXICO – Zihuatanejo/Ixtapa
We tendered into the port of Zihuatanejo, which is a sleepy little fishing village where the fishermen gather on the beaches and sell their daily catch and there are beautiful unspoiled beaches. Just a few kilometres away from here is the modern resort town of Ixtapa – pronounced – Ish-tapa,- one of Mexico’s most popular…
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MEXICO – Cabo San Lucas
The days are still cool as we continue down the California coast with stops in Santa Barbara and San Diego and onward toward Mexico. We have two excellent lecturers on board. Dr Sherry Hutt who will be with us for the whole cruise and gives us not only a lot of information about the ports…
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Panama to San Francisco!
Wending our way up the west cost of Central America, Mexico and the USA, we visited Puntarenas, Costa Rica, Corinto/Leon, Nicaragua, Manzanilla & Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, Los Angeles & San Francisco, California. I was glad we were stopping in Nicaragua, because in 2018 we were not able to do so due to political problems at…
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Zip Lining in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico!!
If I wasn’t certified crazy before I started this cruise perhaps I should have been. Zip Lining!! What was I thinking? And all I broke was a fingernail. I was probably lucky it wasn’t my neck!! Sitting around with friends from the ATW 2018 – Milt & Ginny, Milt mentioned he was going zip lining…
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Panama Canal & how a postage stamp changed history
I gave you a lot of technical information about the canal on my last transit in 2018, like how many ships go through – 40 per day. The cost minimum of $200 thousand and today’s figures remain about the same. The fact that the French started the canal in the late 1800s but never finished…
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Atlantic to Pacific via the Big Ditch!
It was a relatively quick passage through the Panama Canal. No waiting at either side and we are out on a calm Pacific Ocean with a blue sky and lots of sunshine. It looks like a lake out there with the sun sparkling on the water. Huge contrast after the rough seas of the Atlantic…
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SEA DAYS… and I mean SEA DAYS!!
A beautiful sunrise is the start to my first day at sea. It grows into a typical Caribbean day – blue seas, lots of sunshine, warm and I am looking forward to a visit to Key West. After such a wonderful sunrise to start the morning, we get the news that we will not be…
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