The New Locks As we have transited the canal on previous cruises we always heard a lot of talk about the new canal locks. The completion date regularly seemed to slip further and further into the future. Since our last visit to the canal, the new locks have been...
Panama Canal Today we will transit through the Panama Canal. It’s always exciting to watch this engineering marvel in action. The new, wider locks are open and in service, but we will be using the original locks. We arrived at the Gatun locks at 7 am and would spend...
Puerto Limon It had been raining for the last seven days in Costa Rica, fortunately it was partly cloudy when we arrived around 7 AM. We moored starboard side, with the aft part of the ship facing the town. Based on my experience on the 2016 world cruise, I found...
Tai Chi Cancelled It always pays to read the “When and Where” each evening. We assumed that Tai Chi was every day at sea. But we didn’t realize that on Sundays, Catholic Mass is held in the Queens Lounge which cancels Tai Chi on Sundays. Coffee with Hamish In a way...
Late Sleepers Since our tour was cancelled we could sleep in for a bit since we now didn’t have any reason to get ashore at any particular time. One of the down sides of a Grand World Voyage is that 80% of the ship is 4 star mariner or higher which means that priority...
Our first sea day was filled with wonderful activities! Tai Chi We have been interested in Tai Chi, but never tried it on our previous cruises when it was offered. Today when we saw it was being offered on this Grand World Voyage we decided to head down to the Queens...
The Adventure Begins A little before noon we were down in the lobby ready to check out of the Embassy Suites and call an UBER for the short driver over to Terminal 26. The lobby was empty and there was no line to check out. I pulled up my UBER app and requested an...
Fort Lauderdale – Day 2 There is a very nice breakfast in the lobby of the Embassy Suites. We always prefer a room service breakfast but that is not an option here. Most hotels where we stay around the country have some sort of buffet style breakfast in the lobby in...
Arriving Fort Lauderdale Low clouds, poor visibility and sitting on the left side of the airplane, made it impossible to see any of the cruise ships that were in Port Everglades as we were landing on our Delta flight around 8:30 am this morning. Our connection in...
We finished packing today, well let me say, Judy finished packing, while I monitored the College Football Playoffs. Being a Big 10 fan, specifically Ohio State, I was pleased to see the great success the conference had this bowl season – 7-1. I was less pleased to...