What happened? It's 10am! My free breakfast! No shower if I'm to get there in time. I throw on my clothes, brush my teeth and secure my real estate amongst the others. She suspects nothing and I have my usual: fruit, muffins orange juice and coffee. A savings of $5. With my victory at hand, I return to the sanctity of my room to complete yesterday's blog, including the photos. The WiFi is good here so I can download pictures from my cameras and ph...

Up this morning at 8:30. It's cloudy but warm, typically for this season. Shower, shorts, and breakfast should make for a great start to the day. Their continental breakfasts here are free and tasty. Just fruit, muffins orange juice and coffee with a change of fruit each day. With that out of the way, I loaded pictures and published yesterday's blog, organized my stuff, charged all gear and called Martin's house. Talked to a guy that told me the...

I'm sitting out in the garden writing this. It's 11am, about 12 hours since my last post back in Oakland. I got on the plane a half hour early and we left right on time, 1:10am. I reserved the exit row aisle seat which cost me $4 more but money is nothing to me. It was worth it. I could put my legs straight out and not touch anything. Flight was routine and I slept most of the way. We got here in 3 1/2 hours and I shot through immigration and customs, gr...

We got up late after a long night, like around 10. Boomer and Min picked up some laundry for us since they had only half a load. We went up to the buffet and just got in for breakfast at 11:30 before they shut it down to prepare for lunch. We sat up there and talked until 1, then Mom went back to the room to rest her leg while I went to the library and worked on the blog. I returned to the room at 5 and dressed for the fancy dinner. Tonight scallops, salad, w...

"Now who's at the door?". Mom motions me to resolve the issue and I open it to greet Boomer who says, "We're ready. Let's go." From her beauty bar located just around the corner, she gives me a stern glare, then says, "Hi guys. What's going on? Al, let's go. Where's your shoes?" It's a little after 8am and the boat doesn't dock until 11. What's up? Apparently, they spoke with some crew member who said that the ship migh...