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januari - juli 2023
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary ... We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us! Meer informatie
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    Bruce’s birthday!

    26 juni 2023, North Pacific Ocean ⋅ ☁️ 46 °F

    Happy Happy Birthday Bruce! Lots of celebrations before and after the 26th, but these were the highlights of the day!

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    8 Days a Week! International Date Line

    28 juni 2023, North Pacific Ocean ⋅ 🌬 46 °F

    So for those of you that are Beatles fans, remember the song “Eight Days a Week”?

    "Eight days a week
    I love you.
    Eight days a week
    Is not enough to show I care."

    Well, this week we can try “to make eight days enough to show you care” since we have we have Eight Days! Today is Wednesday June 28 and tomorrow is Wednesday June 28. Only possible when you cross the International Date Line (IDL). I feel a little woozy like we are in The Twilight Zone.

    The IDL is an imaginary line extending between the North Pole and the South Pole separating the Western and Eastern Hemispheres and demarcating each calendar day from the next. Most of its length it corresponds with the 180th meridian of longitude. It does zig zag when it deviates westward to include the Aleutian Islands with Alaska to avoid any confusion of date and make sure it does not go thru land.

    Traveling East we subtract a day, so today is June 28 and tomorrow is June 28!!!! It is 2 am and Latitude 52 degrees 30 minutes North and Longitude 170 degrees 57 minutes East and we just crossed the dateline.

    P.S. The worst part? Our “ezy dose” seven-day pill box is “confused” …where do we get the eighth day of pills this week???    Meer informatie

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    Dinner and Abby’s show

    27 juni 2023, Gulf of Alaska ⋅ 🌧 46 °F

    Thank you Cruise Director Ray, Assistant Cruise Director Robbie, ATW Concierge Millie, First-Best Friends on this trip Pat & Norm, and my wonderful wife Karen for this extended birthday celebration and "Big O Toast" around the table.

    What better way to be continue the night than by being entertained this evening by the one and only Abby Hope. [Note: my invitation for dinner came from Abby, who didn't eat but instead "just" sang]. Great evening! Thx.    Meer informatie

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    Around the World Brunch #3

    27 juni 2023, Gulf of Alaska ⋅ ☁️ 46 °F

    For the third and last time we had a brunch for the Around the World Team. Maybe it was all the champagne, but it sure seemed that they went even further this time to make it special.

    Yes, there were every type of breakfast offering you could imagine and many lunch options (although there were even more items that couldn’t fit on the menu) but there were additionally more desserts than ever.

    What a great idea to seat us right next to the desserts so I didn’t even have to get up … only reach over for some more sugar. At one point, the Executive Chef reached over and gave me an entire tray of napoleons … how generous and we also polished off the bounty cake, giving Krista and Tim the bow to celebrate their 48th anniversary (the first time … since they had 2 days of celebration because of the IDL).

    The meal was highlighted by the Panache String Quartet only a few feet away … making it very pleasant to eat and drink and talk and listen to music and have cappuccinos and REPEAT from 10-2p!

    PS Loved the traditional croque-monsieur!    Meer informatie

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    Tim and Krista’s 48th Ann'y Celebration

    28 juni 2023, Gulf of Alaska ⋅ 🌧 46 °F

    Yes, their anniversary celebration started with breakfast, went to dinner and then they had an entire second day as they crossed the date line and had two June 28ths!

    All the celebrations were fun!

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    Dutch Harbor, Alaska

    30 juni 2023, Verenigde Staten ⋅ 🌧 46 °F

    We got our passports back and brought them to U.S. Immigration!!!

    Dutch Harbor on Amaknak Island, Unalaska, Alaska. The Aleutian Islands- the top fishing port in the Bering Sea!

    YES, this was our first port in the United States of America.
    - DAY #167
    - YES, 5.5 months out of the Country (the longest we have ever been out of the Country)
    - Its Windy, Cold and Rainy - A Nice Welcome.
    - We traveled in just 5 days 6 time zones to get here
    - We crossed the International Date Line. 

    - We went through US Customs, They wanted to know “where do you live”! Good Question

    Many of the 90+ ports and 40 Countries we have visited, welcomed us with Bands, Drummers Singers, Dancers, Twirlers, Representatives, Political Leaders and even Fireworks. We arrive to our home, the U.S. of A, we take a tender in from 3 miles out in the Ocean and get to the dock and ….. and the Welcome? NOTHING!

    No local fanfare, not even a cab when we got there. It was raining and there was not even a tent or place with cover but there was a normal (not really a compliment) rest room for us to go in and stay dry.

    This specific harbor is one of many within the greater Unalaska Bay and is said to have been given its name because a Dutch vessel was the first to anchor there. The name dates from the late 18th century. In the 1890's a dock was built at Dutch Harbor and people sailing to Unalaska booked passage to Dutch Harbor.

    In November 2013 in a report by NOAA, Dutch Harbor ranked the # 1 United States fishing port with 752 million pounds of fish valued at $214 million crossing those docks during 2012. The Dutch Harbor crabbing fleet is featured in the Deadliest Catch, the reality television series produced for the Discovery. In it’s13th season, the series portrays real life events aboard fishing vessels in the Bering Sea.  

    What did we do here, not much. Took in the views, visited with people that got off the ship. Some went to the only local bar and market. We took some photos and took the tender back as we took in the scenery.

    We did see a few Bald Eagles and since we all know that to be the national emblem of the United States (since 1782), we felt we were home!
    [Note: Thanks Marianne for the exceptional eagle photos on our mast ... all I got was a dot at the top of the mast]    Meer informatie

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    Sea Day - Rough Waters, Slow Going

    1 juli 2023, Gulf of Alaska ⋅ 🌧 48 °F

    Friday 6-30-23 Late evening thru Saturday 7-1-23
    We left Dutch Harbor 30 minutes early yesterday due to expected bad weather that was coming. The waves started to pickup last night before bedtime. We went to sleep looking forward to a busy day at sea before we got to the next 5 Alaskan ports. As they say, “the weather started getting rough, the tiny ship was tossed”. We were up much of the night as we rocked forward, backward and side to side.

    The rocking and rolling and the swaying began, and the listing continued all night. No one had a good a nights sleep ... some of us finally fell to sleep early in the morning just to wake up a few hours later feeling pretty woozy. The activities for the day were almost all cancelled. Room service became very popular.

    Then the Captain came on the Emergency Messaging System. He told us about the STORM and GALE FORCE WARNING and then explained why we were not getting to Kodiak, Alaska tomorrow. The plan is to skip Kodiak and go right to Seward, Alaska and get there early Monday morning.

    Currently and most of the day and night were experiencing 15+ foot waves with winds of 50+ knots. We were going a very slow but steady 6 knots to avoid any extra rolling. Thinking good thoughts as this is the worst of the weather we have had in 6 months … even worse than Drakes Passage.

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    Havdalah Dinner- The Last Saturday night

    1 juli 2023, Gulf of Alaska ⋅ 🌧 48 °F

    After 25 weeks of facilitating our Friday night Shabbat Services in the intimate library here on the ship, I thought it would be nice to celebrate Havdalah together as a group and have a Shabbat Dinner.

    Of course it came the same evening of our Rough Waters Slow Going (7/1) storm when many people did not make it out of their room for 24-48 hours. That being said, we still had a great group of 20+ friends who took on the challenge to come to dinner and try to have a Havdalah Service in the middle of a lout dining room. Oh, did I mention that we had to make do by getting cinnamon powder from breakfast for our spices, wine was easy- I had 4 left over bottles of Manischewitz but the candle required creativity in that we cannot have open flames (the electric candle would have shorted out so we had a good friend, Mui “paint” us a candle to use). It was a great experience as they even supplied fresh challah (why not?).

    Havdalah was followed by a beautiful full dinner. Of course broiled chicken was available in addition to the many other entrees offered.    Meer informatie

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    Seward, Alaska - SIGHTS (& EVAC) 1 of 2

    3 juli 2023, Verenigde Staten ⋅ 🌧 50 °F

    Pulled into Seward but first thing we had to have the US Coast Guard test us on our "Evacuation Preparedness" - PASSED 100% (not a small feat ... see the video).

    At 60 degrees North and 149 degrees West, Seward (pop 2,717) is a city in Alaska on Resurrection Bay, a fjord of the Gulf of Alaska. By road, its 120 miles from Anchorage. A great place to hike, see wildlife, fish or explore American history as the homeland of the Alutiiq or Sugpiaq. It is named for William Seward, Secretary of State in 1867, who negotiated the purchase of Alaska by the US from the Russian Empire. My mother went to Seward Park High School (in NYC) named after this great man … see below.

    We enjoyed our 2nd trip to Seward and decided that since we were so excited about being on American Soil, we would just enjoy the small but so quaint town of Seward. We spent the afternoon walking the town and going into shops and just visiting with locals at local fares. There were several places to drink (they have their own breweries) and incredible number of places to eat (see next posting) at and varieties of food here too. Seward had everything you need in life … maybe we will move here (the temps only drop to 25 degrees at the coldest). Fun day in the U.S. of A.

    Seward was Mile 0 of the original 1,100 mile Anchorage to Nome old Iditarod Trail that was the dogsled mail route in the early 1900s. Sled teams delivered mail and supplies to such towns as Nome and Iditarod and carried out gold. After a break due to plane travel taking over, it resumed for the “Great Race of Mercy” with the hero dog BALTO (see story at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1925_serum_run_to…)
    BTW, Ghost and Sven won this year ... in 2023.

    P.S. Seward Park HS in NYC was opened in 1905 and had some famous Alumni during the 1940’s … besides my mother, like Zero Mostel, Jerry Stiller, Tony Curtis, Estelle Getty, Walter Matthau, Sammy Cahn and Nobel prize winner Julius Axelrod!    Meer informatie

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