Monkey Watch was one of the excursion options on our recent Panama Canal cruise. The tour left from the pier at Panama City, after we had transited the canal itself. Panama has a large harbor but it is not set up to accommodate cruise ships so we took one of the tenders to get to…
Read MoreTag: cruising
Photo Gallery: Cartagena, Colombia
Here are some additional photos of our visit to Cartagena. The picture above shows a panoramic scene of the city through a gun turret at the top of the fortress San Felipe.
Read More
Our Panama Canal Cruise
One of the things on our bucket list was to take a cruise through the Panama Canal. On Nov. 15 we did just that. It was a sixteen day cruise that left from Fort Lauderdale, traversed the Panama Canal, and ended up in Los Angeles. There were six ports-of-call along the way. Our ship was…
Read More
Photo Gallery: Panama Canal Cruise
Here are some additional photos and videos of our cruise. The photo above is of the ship in port at Huatulco, Mexico. I’ll be adding separate posts for the canal transit and the ports-of-call later.
Read More
Captain Kent’s Last Cruise (and Our First)
Up until 2005 we had long thought a cruise would be a terrific vacation but we were under the impression that cruising was for rich people and we were hardly rich. And so we didn’t really consider it seriously. Our friends Chris and Sheila had been on a couple of cruises and they excitedly told…
Read More
Southeast Asia Cruise – January 2016
Follow us on Facebook! On January 22, 2016, my wife and I went on our sixth cruise – a cruise promoted as a taste of Southeast Asia. We had never been in Southeast Asia before, except for a brief stopover at the Kuala Lumpur airport on our way to Perth, Australia. But it has always been…
Read More
Photo Gallery: Southeast Asia Cruise
Follow us on Facebook! Additional photos from our Southeast Asia cruise. It was rainy when we left Singapore, the first time we had rain on the first day of a cruise. The ship was decked out for Chinese New Year which was coming up soon. The Mariner of the Seas has a full service hair salon…
Read More
The Joy of Cruising
“They called her the Ship of Dreams. And she was. She really was.” You may remember those words spoken by old Rose in the movie Titanic. The Titanic was spectacular as the movie shows, with gilded dining rooms, gorgeous wooden staircases, luxury suites and more. Replica of the staircase of the Titanic at the Titanic…
Read More