Festive Carib PreCursor Paid Off
2022年9月14日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 73 °F
Technically, final payment for this precursor cruise wasn’t due until the 18th. But that’s when we are leaving on our RV road trip. Thus, when the reminder for the payment came from Oceania today,もっと詳しく
SWA Re-Priced
2022年9月13日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 81 °F
An article from Points Guy this afternoon led me to check the pricing on our Southwest Airlines flight from DEN to MIA on 13 December.
I wasn’t expecting that we’d be able to fly for theもっと詳しく
SFO-DEN Flight ... ✔︎
2022年8月14日, Baffin Bay ⋅ 🌬 41 °F
I wasn’t anticipating that I would be writing in this journal while we are on our expedition voyage in the Canadian High Arctic. But something came up today that is directly related to RTW2023 …もっと詳しく
Exclusive Shoreside Events
2022年6月30日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 75 °F
One of the published "perks" for a world voyage with Oceania is the planned exclusive shoreside events. I say planned because they might change before — or even after — we embark upon ourもっと詳しく
CatC 4052 It Is
2022年6月27日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 75 °F
Normally, we prefer to book veranda cabins as I spend so much of my time on the ship sitting out there ... enjoying the fresh air and the sound of the ocean as the ship cleaves through the water.
Notもっと詳しく
Cha-Ching! ... Paid in Full
2022年6月27日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 66 °F
Done!!!
I paid the third and last installment of the final payment for RTW2023 today. The proof that I owe nothing further came in the form of an updated Oceania invoice.
Barring any unforeseenもっと詳しく
New-to-Us
2022年6月25日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 73 °F
AusPan — short for “Australian Panorama” — is Oceania’s circumnavigation of Australia … on Regatta … R/T out of Sydney.
This 35-day Extended Voyage consists of two segments. (1) “Aweもっと詳しく
Cha-Ching! ... Installment #2
2022年6月22日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 66 °F
Making headway towards a zero count for the final payment.
Two down ... one more installment to go.
Circumnavigating Australia
2022年6月20日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 82 °F
"Feast your eyes on an astonishing kaleidoscope of visual treats as you circumnavigate Australia for over a month, with highlights including the Great Barrier Reef, the coastal towns of theもっと詳しく
UA Out ... SW In
2022年6月18日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 68 °F
The short story ...
United changed our December flight to Miami to an earlier departure ... 8:29a. It would have been OK if the flight was originating from COS ... which is a short drive away. It’sもっと詳しく
Cha-Ching! ... Installment #1
2022年6月14日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 84 °F
The final payment for RTW2023 — the 198-day version — is at hand.
This voyage must be paid off by the end of June. My Chase credit card gives two points per dollar spent on travel. So, I'm usingもっと詳しく
RTW2023 Segments
2022年6月3日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌧 64 °F
Oceania bundled RTW2023 with a couple of segments this year ... prior to or after the San Francisco to San Francisco voyage. Those longer versions of the itinerary went on sale at the same time theもっと詳しく
Festive Carib ... $s Saved
2022年5月26日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 63 °F
Oceania began a Memorial Day Sale yesterday. Reviewing the list of cruises to which the sale applies, I noted that our RTW2023 precursor cruise to the Caribbean was included.
The sale is for aもっと詳しく
Residence in Brickell ... ✔︎
2022年5月15日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 73 °F
Since neither the YVE Miami nor the Brickell Arch residence at the AKA Hotel turned out to be an option for December’s pre-cruise stay, today we sat down to figure out where we would be stayingもっと詳しく
Back from Our EuroCrossing
2022年5月13日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 72 °F
We traveled for some 50+ days without getting bit by the COVID-19 virus, masking up in crowds and in places where we could not social distance ... only to get caught in its trap after we got homeもっと詳しく
Home Sweet Home
2022年5月10日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 68 °F
We’re back home! As much as we love traveling to lands distant and near, it’s always a delight to return home.
Our flight from IAH to COS was on time and uneventful … but it sure was cold onもっと詳しく
Travel Day 2 … Onward to COS
2022年5月10日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 81 °F
We’ve checked out of the Marriott and are on our way home … should be pulling into the driveway by 2:30p if all goes as scheduled.
Normally, we walk the underground pedestrian path from the hotelもっと詳しく
Welcome to Houston
2022年5月9日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 81 °F
Day 1 of our travels back to the US is now completed. We’ve checked in and settled into our room at the Marriott IAH … connected to George Bush Intercontinental Airport via a subway. Easyもっと詳しく
Whiling Away Time @ IST
2022年5月9日, トルコ ⋅ ⛅ 57 °F
An uneventful flight from ADB to IST.
The aircraft pushed back on time at 8:50a … in the air seconds after 9:00a … breakfast on our trays by 9:09a … pilot announced descent into IST at 9:27aもっと詳しく
At ADB
2022年5月9日, トルコ ⋅ ⛅ 55 °F
Mui had arranged for a taxi to pick us up from Mom’s at 6:30a. But we were ready by 6:00a, so he walked over to the corner to see if the cab could pick us up early. The driver was, in fact, ready.もっと詳しく
Heading Home
2022年5月9日, トルコ ⋅ ⛅ 52 °F
Today is the first of our two travel days to get home … have to overnight in Houston, Texas due to flight schedules.
Mui did a “bit of shopping,” so we’re going back with an extra bag. One ofもっと詳しく
Happy Mom’s Day
2022年5月8日, トルコ ⋅ ⛅ 72 °F
We went to Sakız Restoran for a late lunch today … to celebrate Mother’s Day … and to enjoy a farewell dinner with the family since we leave tomorrow to return to the USA.
As is always theもっと詳しく
Urla: Food-Art-Food
2022年5月7日, トルコ ⋅ 🌙 63 °F
A beautiful spring day — a bit breezy; but with blue skies and sunshine to mitigate the chill.
To make the most of it, we began our day early with a 40-minute drive to Urla, a town in the Provinceもっと詳しく
İzmir Tradition: Lokma Dökmek
2022年5月6日, トルコ ⋅ ☀️ 72 °F
Lokma is a pastry made with leavened dough. The dough is shaped either like a ball or a doughnut and deep fried. Then, it is soaked in simple syrup just long enough to coat the exterior. It is oftenもっと詳しく
Murals Around İzmir
2022年5月6日, トルコ ⋅ ☀️ 68 °F
Longtime readers all know of my love of murals. The medium doesn't matter ... paint, tile, mosaic. So, of course, when I came across a few as we wandered around the city yesterday and today, I had toもっと詳しく
Konak Square
2022年5月5日, トルコ ⋅ ☀️ 70 °F
From the Agora, Mui and I headed into Kemeraltı, the shopping district, and grabbed some döner for lunch from Özev, the restaurant Murat took us to a few days ago.
Then, we meandered to Konakもっと詳しく


























































