Category: South-America
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Days 32 and 33 – Last Day at Sea, Arriving in Fort Lauderdale, and Reflection on the Past Month
We kept up our sea day routine on the pool deck in the morning, and then prepared to return to reality, packing everything up to disembark the next morning. Our packing turned out to be rather painless. Yes, we have purchased quite a few items to bring home, but our…
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Day 31 – Day at Sea
We’re sailing towards Ft. Lauderdale now, arriving in 2 days. Our course runs us between Haiti on the east, Jamaica further west, and a narrow strait between Cuba and Haiti later tonight. I took a picture of Haiti as we sailed past within 10 miles from shore. Not much to…
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Day 30 – Aruba
What a gem of an island. I’d get stranded on this island anytime! Busy day at the cruise terminal, with our ship one of three docked in Aruba for the day. Patrick, our concierge, had mentioned some of the hotels offer day passes for use of their amenities, but as…
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Day 29 – Day at Sea
We’re heading due East in the Caribbean Sea towards Aruba, an island off the coast of Venezuela. Winds are high, seas are rough today, but it is mostly sunny. The outside promenade and top sun deck were closed during the morning due to the high winds. Its calmed enough in…
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Day 28 – Passage through the Panama Canal
Today was a thrill, going through the Panama Canal. It is quite an impressive engineering site to see. We went to bed the night before with a tentative ship schedule to be in the queue to enter the canal at 6:30AM. but when we woke up at 6:30, we had…
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Day 27 – Panama City and Gamboa Rainforest Reserve
We docked outside of Panama City, Panama on a series of former islands connected to the mainland from the construction debris of the Panama Canal. Panama City is a large city with a skyline of skyscrapers similar to Miami Beach. We boarded a tour bus around 8:30AM for what was…
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