Port 07 Kagoshima, Japan
Aisatsu! Greetings! Ohayo gozaimasu! Good morning! The sun is already a little high, but mostly cloud covered as we approach Kagoshima on 21 March, 2024. Mt Sakurajima greets us with a little bit of...
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Port 06 Taipei, Taiwan
Wènhòu! Greetings once again! We have blue skies on 20 Mar, 2024, as we arrive in Taipei, Taiwan! A little foreboding – we need to enjoy our blue skies now because we won’t see...
Port 05 Ilocos, Philippines
Greetings! We have a bright sunny morning greeting us on 18 March, 2024, as we arrive in Ilocos, Philippines! A tug (actually three) are waiting for us as we come into the breakwaters. Today...
Port 04 Manila, Philippines
Greetings! We have a beautiful sunrise-backed skyline facing us on 18 March, 2024, as we arrive in Manila, Philippines! Many ships occupy the waters offshore, awaiting their time to enter the port to offload...
Port 03 Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
Ucapan! Greetings! On 14 Mar, 2024, we arrive in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia! It promises to be another hot and muggy day. We have a tour to a cultural village to see how the early...
Port 02 Maura, Brunei
Greetings, once again! Ucapan! (in Malay) As we approach Brunei the morning of 12 March, we see a city of oil rigs, tankers, and supply ships on our starboard side. The coast of Brunei...
Port 01 Surabaya, Indonesia
Greetings! On the morning of March 11th, 2024, we slowly glide through miles of harbor to reach our berth at the Surabaya Cruise Terminal. In the distance we see a huge statue of a...
Pre-Cruise Stay in Bali
Greetings! Picking up from the travel post, having arrived at the Ayung Resort Ubud Hotel we learn our reservation was lost, but they are able to give us an open suite. We lost our...
Traveling to Bali!
Greetings, all! March 4th, 2024, is a flurry of activity. We finish packing AND prepping the condo for our realtor to show, finishing just in time for our chauffeur to pick us up! Whew!...
Packing and Prep for Asia!
Greetings, fellow travel supporters! We are frantically juggling numerous balls as we prepare to join the Oceania Insignia 2024 World Cruise that started a few months ago! I’ll lay this on the table and...
Final Africa Cruise Port – Barcelona
Saludos, mis amigos! On this beautiful May 27th, 2023, we arrive in Barcelona, Spain. We disembark the Sojourn for the last time! We fly home to Florida today! Let me step back two days...
Cruise Port 18 – Casablanca, Morocco
Tahiati and Bonjour (Greetings in Arabic and French), On May 24th, 2023, we arrive in Casablanca, Morocco! This is our fourth attempt to visit Casablanca – we finally made it! We have a tour...
Cruise Port 17 – Arrecife, Lanzarote, Canary Islands
Buenas dias for the last time! It is May 22nd, 2023. Today we arrive in Arrecife, Lanzarote! The sun is well up when we pull into port. Since our last visit here the island...
Cruise Port 16 – Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands
Buenas dias! It is May 21st, 2023, and we are in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, today! This is our third visit to the Canaries, but we don’t remember what we did on our first...
Cruise Port 15 – Mindelo, São Vicente, Cape Verde
Ola! Today, May 18th, 2023, we are visiting Mindelo on the sleepy island of São Vicente, Cape Verde. This is one island we did not book a ship’s tour – they all go to...
Cruise Port 14 – Praia, Santiago, Cape Verde
Saudações e Olá (Greetings and Hello in Portuguese)! Today, May 17th, 2023, we arrive at Santiago, the first of two Cape Verde islands. The Cape Verde Islands gave Portugal a stepping stone to the...
Cruise Port 13 – Dakar, Senegal
Bonjour once again! On May 15th, 2023, we arrive in Dakar. This is a city I’ve been interested in seeing since hearing Ofeibea Quist-Arcton report from here many times on NPR radio! Joy and...
Cruise Port 12 – Banjul, Gambia
Bonjour! (Yes, they speak French as the primary language in this part of Africa. Creole is the native conversational language.) On May 14th, 2023, we arrive at the industrial port of Banjul. On our...
Cruise Port 11 – Lome, Togo
Kudo again! On May 9th, 2023, we find ourselves approaching Lome, Togo! Togo is a sliver of a country wedged between Benin on the east and Ghana on the west! On my first look...
Cruise Port 10 – Tema, Ghana
Kudo! Afo gangia! (Hello two ways in Fon) Today is May 8th, 2023, and we are in Ghana. The port is Tema, but the destination city is nearby Accra. We have a tour today...
