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19 декабря 2024 г.
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19 декабря 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ⛅ 57 °F
And we're off! Eaten too much already with some beautiful people, including a lady celebrating her 90th with her children. The whole cruise thing reminds me of Mom and how much she loooved cruising; missing her a lot.

2 days at sea and then stopping in Puerto Vallarta.Читать далее
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Путешественник Wow!
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ПутешественникI like how decked out for Christmas everything is. Have a great time. ❤️
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ПутешественникWonderful, enjoy!
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1st day in port - Puerto Vallarta
22 декабря 2024 г., North Pacific Ocean ⋅ 🌙 79 °F
After 2+ days at sea (totally calm...perfect weather) we docked in Puerto Vallarta. We had whale watching tickets for 12:30 but were a little concerned about making it back to the ship on time, so we switched so we could go see whales with our new friends from DC area. Thar be whales, captain! Lots, as this is their birthing grounds. Hopped over to Sam's for some cheapy stuff and to practice my Español some more. Great day.Читать далее
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Путешественник Look at you in your warm weather clothes! I just drove through snow.
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ПутешественникI didn't bring enough! Be careful, friend, but have fun with your fam ❤️
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Amazing!! [Lydia Vian]
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Huatulco port
24 декабря 2024 г., North Pacific Ocean ⋅ 🌬 77 °F
After another day at sea (saw a huge pod of dolphins next to us for part of the way!) we arrived in Huatulco, Oaxaca (home of mezcal, apparently). Wandered in nearby La Crucecita (beautiful church), ate shrimp ceviche on the beach, and swam in the perfect-temperature ocean. Fun caroling in the atrium after dinner and then a magician and game show competition against the staff (we guests won) to wind out the evening.
Christmas tomorrow - come Lord Jesus!Читать далее
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Once again you are taking great pictures! 📸What a beautiful Church! Looks like so so much fun😁 Merry Christmas to Greg and you, friend!!✨️🤲 [Rose]
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Путешественник❤️🎄
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Puerto Chiapas - Izapa and Tapachula, MX
25 декабря 2024 г., North Pacific Ocean ⋅ ☁️ 84 °F
Feliz Navidad! Thank you, Lord Jesus, for your willingness to give up Your throne and come to Earth to bring us new life! What a selfless, loving God You are!

Port day waaayyy South in Mexico (a few miles from Guatemala). Ship excursion (since we weren't sure what would be open) to 3500 year old Mayan ruins! Amazing; really gets my curiosity going. Then a chamber-of-commerce tour of the regional town, Tapachula.

Dressy night for Christmas dinner with our new friends, Don and Diane. Then my amazing husband booked us a Swedish couples massage as a surprise Christmas present. Gotta love a man who knows my love language! 💕

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.Читать далее
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ПутешественникMerry Christmas! What a nice gift!
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ПутешественникMerry Christmas, dear friend. ❤️
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ПутешественникMerry Christmas! We are in such different areas of the world! Can't wait to see you when we're back. 🤗
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ПутешественникSounds wonderful.
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Puntarenas, Costa Rica
27 декабря 2024 г., Коста Рика ⋅ ☁️ 82 °F
So I'm certainly not the stenographer my friend, Laura, is on this app; I completely forgot to write anything last night, but some of that is because I'm fighting something.

Port in Costa Rica yesterday and took an excursion on a crocodile cruise - very cool! Lots of big Crocs, turtles, lizards, monkeys, and a gazillion birds.

Upon returning to the Port (Puntarenas means sandy point, BTW), Greg went back to the ship and I ventured out to have a Churchill A Churchill (apparently the guy it's named after looked like Winston). Snow cone meets fruit meets condensed milk. You're not missing much) and find a farmacía for some throat spray. My español is sufficing.Читать далее
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Путешественник You finally had a use for those. I hope the bugs aren’t too bad.
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ПутешественникNot bad at all, I'm just paranoid since I read the story of the Panama Canal. Not usually like me to be paranoid! Also worry about falling off the ship and them never finding me. Too much time on my hands to think 🤔
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Путешественник That’s a pretty bird. Do you know what kind it is?
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ПутешественникSome kind of a heron or kingfisher, I think. There were soooo many varieties!
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Fuerte Amador (Panama City)
29 декабря 2024 г., Панама ⋅ 🌧 81 °F
Docking outside Panama City for the day before we head into the canal (soooo excited!) and booked a private guide for a look at the canal plus old and new city. (BTW, Fuerte Amador - "Fuerte" means "strong" because the army used to be stationed here; Amador is the name of the first president of Amazon when it gained independence .) Gilberto was a sweet guy and let us pop in and out of museums (and supermercado for snacks).

Actually really liked this city. (And in case you haven't read up on Panama lately, it became its own country in 1903 just before the US took over the canal digging after France failed. (Used to be part of Colombia.) Finished in 1914...the same day WW1 started and the US had a 10 mile swathe with the canal they totally controlled. Eventually Panama got tired of the US being so entrenched in their country and President Carter signed it back over to the Panamanians, which finally happened in 1999. In 2016 the new, wider canal opened to accommodate the bigger ships of today. Canal revenues are 1/3 of their economy. ($1.2M was the most fees ever on a cargo ship a few years ago.) Plus Manuel Noriega and other controversial stuff we're still trying to catch up on. Fascinating if you like history!)Читать далее
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Transit through the Canal - old locks
30 декабря 2024 г., Панама ⋅ ☁️ 84 °F
I think I was channeling my inner-Dad mechanical engineering nerd today as we went through this amazing place. After reading McCullough's Path Between the Seas it was amazing to actually see it.

In brief, finished in 1914 after a failed French attempt and had been going ever since-still using original locks and everything! In 2016 Panama built a new canal for the bigger ships, but the old is still used. 2 locks up at the Pacific, a small manmade lake they use for refilling, another lock up, the HUGE Gatun lake, then 3 more locks down and voilá, the Caribbean!

We had great weather and I got up at o'dark-thirty to get a great spot up front to watch. It was in some ways like watching very cool paint dry as it's a slow process to hook us to the "mules" and close and open lock gates, etc. But worth it! Highly recommend.

If you want to read more on Carter and the Canal, here you go: How the Panama Canal affects Jimmy Carter's legacy https://www.npr.org/2024/12/29/1161146405/presi…Читать далее
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Cartagena, Colombia
31 декабря 2024 г., Колумбия ⋅ ☁️ 84 °F
Who woulda think we would have liked Cartagena, Colombia so much! Our first foray into South America and last port before we hit Fort Lauderdale after 3 days at sea.

Cartagena was (of course) colonized by the Spanish, a couple dozen years after Columbus. Because it's a port city facing the Atlantic it was a very popular pirate spot after the Spanish started pulling the gold out (Henry Morgan and Francis Drake, who were both working on the sly for Queen Elizabeth I).

All that pirating made Cartagena have to develop a giant wall fortification over the course of 400 years, and it's one of the longest lasting and best preserved walls in the world. These walls surround the beautiful old city of Getsemaní, which has lots of colorful buildings) and colonial architecture elsewhere nearby.

Because Greg has some serious plantar fascitis going we couldn't walk around so we did the hop-on/hop-off, but we both would have loved to have walked around despite the incredibly oppressive humidity. At least it hasn't rained on us! They keep saying "100% chance" of rain and we keep getting lucky.

Loved using my Spanish again.
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ПутешественникHappy New Year, my friend. ❤️
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ПутешественникHappy New Year back! 🥰
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Florida Keys
4 января 2025 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ 🌬 64 °F
Ft. Lauderdale was close enough to warrant a few days in Key West. Interesting place...and glad we did it!
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Путешественник I feel like I’ve seen that house in movies.
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Путешественник A couple of them are looking right at you- posing.
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Everglades National Park
7 января 2025 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ 🌙 55 °F
While we were in the area...!
Homeward bound tomorrow - yeah!
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Путешественник Yikes!
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