That’s A Compact?!?
2023年9月3日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 70 °F
Time for another overseas trip!
This year’s annual trip to Türkiye to visit family starts today with a flight to Toronto (YYZ), where we will stay overnight before the long haul to Türkiyeもっと詳しく
RV’ing Across Three States
2023年8月31日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 91 °F
We’ve got three roads trips planned — loosely, I might add — interspersed amongst other modes of travel to explore Australia.
One is a road trip around Tasmania. This one will be byもっと詳しく
AusPan Hobart Disembark Approved
2023年8月25日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 68 °F
Our decision to return to Tasmania after disembarking Regatta in Sydney, prompted us to consider leaving the ship in Hobart instead.
I did some research, contacted the ship’s agent in Hobart, andもっと詳しく
Kimberleys: Price Drop
2023年8月24日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 91 °F
Received an email from Coral Expeditions last night. I thought it was in response to a query I had submitted. I was wrong.
Turns out that in conjunction with publishing the 2025 itineraries, Coralもっと詳しく
GBR Liveaboard ✔️
2023年8月21日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 91 °F
Mui loves snorkeling.
So, of course, he’s going to snorkel the Great Barrier Reef [GBR] when Regatta call on Cairns in December … as he did when Insignia stopped there on RTW2017.
But a day tripもっと詳しく
The Ghan Booked
2023年8月19日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 93 °F
The Ghan — which runs through the “Red Center” of Australia — is regarded as one of the world’s greatest train journeys.
Alas, it was another thing that we were going to have to excludeもっと詳しく
Kimberleys by Sea
2023年8月18日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 93 °F
Exploring the Kimberleys, the northernmost region of Australia, was one of the things we had to exclude from our original itinerary due to timing.
It wasn’t that we didn’t have time to add it toもっと詳しく
Extended … Again!
2023年8月17日, アメリカ
Yes, we decided to add more time to our Australia Overland … again!
The primary reason for extending was so that we could add a few things to our itinerary that our previous in-country dates wereもっと詳しく
Australia Visas Approved
2023年8月16日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 91 °F
So much for a 22-day processing time frame!
We received our visas within three working days.
I don’t know if this faster approval is just the norm for US residents. Or if all the extra informationもっと詳しく
AU Visa Applications ✔️
2023年8月12日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 77 °F
Received a UA flight change notification today. No big deal; except that we are now leaving from COS @ 7:40a. An already long travel day is now going to be even longer. It is what it is.
For someもっと詳しく
IP Booked
2023年7月27日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 88 °F
Grif’s Great Australian Rail Trip was our inspiration.
Actually, we had looked at booking a rail journey in Australia before we watched the six-episode BBC series. But, we weren’t looking at theもっと詳しく
Cha-Ching! HAL Final Payment ✓
2023年7月22日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 88 °F
It sure felt good to make a final payment today that was considerably less thanks to the re-pricing of our cruise last week!
Cha Ching: Final Payment ✔️
2023年7月21日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 79 °F
Done deal.
Although it was not due until the 24th, I made the final payment for AusPan today.
Now to scribble in some time and tasks on ToDoist to work on everything else that is pending for ourもっと詳しく
Itinerary Change #3
2023年7月20日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 72 °F
Just before the final payment reminder from Oceania showed up in my inbox this morning, I received notification of an itinerary change … the third one since booking our extended voyage a year ago toもっと詳しく
Extended!
2023年7月19日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 72 °F
It took just 20 pages of reading this morning to jiggle our Australia plans.
Yesterday, I downloaded an Australia eGuide from the library since neither Mui nor I have been able to find the one Iもっと詳しく
FLL-DEN Re-Ticketed
2023年7月19日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 72 °F
This morning, we re-ticketed our return flights to the USA in order to extend our time in Australia next winter. The good news? The ticket price was lower. The sort-of bad news, the difference wasもっと詳しく
LF Delivered
2023年7月18日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 86 °F
The bags we left on Insignia for shipping to our house were delivered today!
Now to start unpacking and putting things away.
But that can wait until tomorrow.
İstanbul Embarkation ✓
2023年7月16日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 90 °F
When I was repricing this cruise yesterday, I also requested a change to our embarkation port.
Though we were told yesterday that we could expect a response within 3-5 business days, HAL’s approvalもっと詳しく
Cha Ching! TransAtlantic Repriced
2023年7月15日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 72 °F
I almost didn’t check the current pricing on the HAL website today.
And what a shame that would have been!
In the interim since I last checked, the rate for our cabin category had gone downもっと詳しく
Itinerary Revision #1
2023年7月14日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 81 °F
When I saw the HAL change notification email in my inbox this morning, my heart sank.
Why? Because the first thing that came to my mind was the change Sonia & Boris experienced when they did thisもっと詳しく
LF Picked Up & On the Way
2023年7月14日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 82 °F
Because we left Insignia before the official disembarkation day of 13 July, our Luggage Forward shipment remained in the cabin for handling by the ship's crew and the LF rep who joined us in Alaska toもっと詳しく
FLL-DEN Schedule Change
2023年7月13日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 86 °F
I wrote the last footprint for this trip at the front end of our world cruise. That was on New Year's Eve.
Here we are ... 7½ months later ... and I am writing this footprint on the day that ourもっと詳しく
Back Home Travel Day
2023年7月12日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌙 75 °F
There's nothing better than having a smooth travel day following a grand travel adventure.
With very few passengers skipping the overnight in San Francisco and leaving the ship this morning, we hadもっと詳しく
C’est Fini!
2023年7月12日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 55 °F
It’s finished!
213 days after embarking Insignia, today we bid our floating home farewell at Pier 27 in San Francisco, California.
Our adventure included a couple of days in Miami, Florida beforeもっと詳しく
Hello San Francisco!
2023年7月12日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 54 °F
Yes, we got to see the Golden Gate Bridge.
Welcome to San Francisco!
The Last Pilot Boat
2023年7月12日, North Pacific Ocean ⋅ ☁️ 52 °F
Here comes the pilot to take us into San Francisco … for the last sail in of RTW2023.
Will we see the Golden Gate Bridge? We’ll have to see if the weather cooperates.
For the moment at least,もっと詳しく





































旅行者Looking forward to following along on your next adventure!. 🙂
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旅行者I love following your trips! Safe travels
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