Pitcairn Island  85f Sunny The South Polynesian islands are divided into various groupings.  For example, Tahiti and Riaitea belong in...

Tahiti    stinking hot and sunny Our first glimpse of Tahiti showing the harbor and a very walkable downtown. We all know and have...

Easter Island  77f  showers, sunny, windy Easter Island is another site that is on my short personal highlights list.  When anyone would...

Valparaiso (pop 200,000 city proper / 800,000urban area) is a major seaport and naval base for Chile.  At the time of our visit, several...

Arica, Chile 80F Sunny Why Arica?  I asked myself that every time I looked at the ship’s itinerary.  Perhaps a refueling, resupply stop...

Lima, Peru 85F sunny We are now south of the equator where the seasons are opposite. It is summer in Lima. Hard to equate summer...

Panama Canal 86 F Sunny I have a short list of experiences on this trip that are personal highlights.  The transit of the Panama Canal is...

Colon, Panama  85f Sunny and Windy Colon is the richest port in the Caribbean area due to the location to the Panama Canal.   As the...

Cartagena, Columbia 92F Sunny Columbia has a very long history of wars, external and internal, since the Spanish colonization in the...

Bridgetown, Barbados 85F rain then sunny and hot! Bridgetown was an extremely busy town. 4 cruise ships docked the same day, and the...

Cause after 5 days sailing around where the scenery never changes yet times move back some days and not the others - I have lost a sense...

Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands 70's F Sunny with clouds Tenerife is the largest island of the Canary Islands and Santa Cruz is...

Casablanca 74 F sunny. The cruise line included 15 tours at various ports as part of the cruise package. Casablanca was the first...

It has been a strange schedule and I apologize for not keeping up with my posts. I have one coming for Casablanca and Santa Cruz de...

I've learned with this blog that the first photo becomes the header of the post. I have chosen the beautiful sunrise over the...

Aix en Provence 45 F sunny and cool Aix en Provence, or Aix, is about 20 miles north of Marseille with approx. 145,000 residents. It...

Savonna 43 F sunny and windy Savona was quite the interesting stop. Costa has obviously adopted the port as home due to the logos,...

Travel likes and dislikes are so personal. Someone has the best time and someone has the worst time. You shouldn't let someone else's...

Catania, Sciliy, Italy 55 F Sunny Catania sits at the bottom of Mt Etna, Europe's most active volcano erupting at least once a year...

Dubrovnik, Croatia 54 F, cloudy with some rain Another grey day but nice temps and the rain held off until the Uber back to the boat. ...