Ready or not, my world is about to start turning again after two-and-a half + years, as I land in New York City to begin a 46-day cruise adventure. Planning this journey for over a year has been almost make believe, yet here I am. Astonishingly, my flights, luggage, and hotel transports all occur flawlessly,…
Continue reading →You’ve heard of the affliction called “homesickness”, impassively defined as “a longing for one’s home during a period of absence from it.” Well, I’m feeling that now, but for another kind of home…my sea home. Knowing that we have spent much time on the cruise ship Insignia, our friend and Oceania butler, Priyan, sent a…
Continue reading →Packing to live somewhere else for 6 months feels a bit like moving. When I travel, I always have the best intentions to pack a simple, capsule wardrobe with basic necessities. In fact, I tend to pride myself on efficiency in packing, finding multi-purpose in items, and knowing I can always do laundry to save…
Continue reading →Miami to Miami. Around the World. 360 degrees. 180 days. We are about to do it again. In 2015, we took an around-the-world cruise that was thwarted at the last minute due to unforeseen circumstances, shortened to sort of two-thirds around the world. And, while it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, there is a certain attraction…
Continue reading →I don’t need to say exactly how many years ago I was last in Italy, but there were still remnants of scaffolding in Florence then, from the long reconstruction effort after the great flood of that beautiful city. When I arrived this time, at Leonardo Da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport outside of Rome, I was glad to…
Continue reading →We are off again. Check out my Journeys page to find our latest itinerary as we will be cruising back-to-back segments from Rome to Dubai and Dubai to Cape Town for two months, from October 21, 2016 to December 21, 2016. These are mostly places we have never visited and, if we don’t go now,…
Continue reading →We are packed…finally. Ready to leave for Copenhagen, the starting point for our cruise up the west coast of Norway, which has always held a special place in my heart. Norway is the homeland of my father’s ancestors. As young college coeds touring a summer in Europe, my sister and I were hosted on a…
Continue reading →I am no stranger to Minnesota, as we recently packed up the car and the dog, and headed to the north woods for a weekend family celebration. I spent a couple of weeks every summer of my childhood in the family station wagon, as we wound our way north on our annual vacation. My dad,…
Continue reading →The hardest part of travel may be getting there…and getting back from there. Airplanes, airports, security checks, queues, more queues, waiting, walking, more waiting, sitting, more walking, more sitting…and no sleeping. That’s where we are right now….sitting and waiting in London’s foggy Heathrow airport, en route so far for about 18 hours, with about three…
Continue reading →“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone”, the daughter of my friend advised her, as she was choosing a travel destination. And, as Dean and I are about to embark on another cruise, I am feeling a bit out of my comfort zone. To fill in some of the cancelled itinerary of our…
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