Posts from the ‘Travel blogging’ Category
With most of the ports on this cruise — Dublin, Edinburgh, Copenhagen, St. Petersburg — the question wasn’t “What do you do?” but “What don’t you do?” Knowing what to leave off the itinerary can keep you from running around trying to do it all. But that didn’t seem like it was the problem with [...]
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Does it sound just terrible to say that on our big first day in fabulous Dublin, we landed at the hotel, sloughed off luggage and yesterday’s clothes and slept for five hours? I hope not, because that’s what happened. But that’s why we gave ourselves an extra day, to get rid of some jet lag [...]
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Going off on the big cruise. I don’t so much want to get away. I want to come away.
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Just got back from some time in Death Valley. My mom and I were hoping to catch some of the wildflowers. We missed the peak season but still saw many thousands of little purple and yellow blooms littered across the oceans of bubbling ochre sand. Here are some of the more choice images. I was [...]
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Greg and I are on the last day of a short cruise that took in several stops in British Columbia. Today’s the last day, and it’s a “sea day,” a day when the ship doesn’t dock anywhere. Today in my Gospel reading, I happened on Mark 6:30-32: Then the apostles gathered to Jesus and told [...]
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Once again, I’m attempting the difficult maneuver of getting a hotel coffeemaker to yield a satisfactory cup of tea, this time in the Hampton Inn outside Chicago. Greg and I are on one of our occasional quick trips here to enjoy goddaughter time and catch a little of that Chicagoland swank, if we can get [...]
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Well, I’m back in the lower 48 states — or “outside”, as I’ve heard the Alaskans refer to it. Things I’ve learned:
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I try to do one thing on a cruise that I’ve never done before and have some reason to think I’ll never do again. This time it was riding on a dog sled. We did this yesterday in Skagway. It was one of the excursions that Carnival offered, and once I saw it I just [...]
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We’re on Day 3 (or 4?) of our Alaskan cruise, so I knew this morning that we must be in Juneau. But we opted to get a windowless inside cabin on the ship, so I didn’t have any idea how it would look. Turns out it looks like this:
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This will be my fifth cruise, and so I’m used to the fact that you spend the first couple days getting lost. I counted it as a victory today when I found the gym. I had followed the signs but always ended up in the wrong place. Today when I finally broke down and asked, [...]
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