July 3,2024 Serenity …transiting Seymour Narrows We woke to clouds, had some coffee and muffins in our room, then I headed to the gym. Late morning we were captivated by Crystal World Affairs lecturer: General Mark Hertling (ret.). He discussed “Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine”. As Commander of the Army in Europe he was involved in...
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July 1,2024 Victoria, British Columbia Aboard Crystal Serenity After breakfast in our room, we walked off the ship and grabbed a taxi to Butchart Gardens. We could have taken the Crystal shuttle to town, and caught another bus to the Gardens, but the taxi was so much easier and quicker. The 35 minute drive passed...
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Victoria, British Columbia June 30, 2024 Crystal Serenity We sailed into port shortly before 9:00 am. There were a few hardy folks out on the breakwater. I was in bed, enjoying my coffee, looked up and saw this guy on the railing. I stealthily snapped his photo, good thing I was so stealthy, because as...
Continue readingPort Angeles, Washington June 29, 2024 From our veranda upon awakening. Our whale watching tour was scheduled to leave from the Stardust Club at 9:00 am, so no second breakfast. After a 10 minute bus ride, nineteen of us boarded our boat – the Glacier Spirit. Captain EJ went through the safety drill with humor....
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Astoria Oregon, June 28,2024 One of the many joys of traveling at our pace, is the opportunity to meet new folks and spend a moment (however brief) with them. We awoke to the Astoria Megler bridge, enjoyed coffee and muffins as we watched ships traverse the waterway. This cruise, it’s been too cold to have...
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Thursday, June 27, 2024 Sea Day on Serenity Second breakfast in the Bistro, including a double espresso and cappuccino. Here’s Timmy texting with Terri our cat sitter…evidently Freddie loves her more than us now. I left Timmy to his own devices and spent some time in the gym. Then we headed to Marketplace for lunch....
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Wednesday June 26,2024 We were scheduled to dock in San Francisco at 8:00 am and Captain Vincent estimated that we’d be passing under the Golden Gate bridge at 7:00 am. We set our alarms for 6:50 and immediately upon opening the curtain we spied the bridge, backlit by the sunrise. We scrambled to the veranda...
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Tuesday June 25,2024 We slept in, had coffee and muffins in the room (too chilly out on the balcony) and enjoyed the ship until lunchtime. Crystal’s famous Asain lunchtime buffet in Marketplace was amazing as usual. When we walked across the pool deck, the pool was sloshing like crazy…of course by the time I got...
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We spied the ship as we entered the port. Made my heart sing. Our driver fetched us at 11:00, we arrived at the port, dropped our luggage, and were seated in the terminal by 11:50 am. As we were waiting to go through security we met Bill, who often comments on this blog and the...
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December 1,2023 Nassau Bahamas I woke as we were sailing into our last port and was rewarded with some lovely views. We were entertained for almost an hour watching families disembark the Disney ship…so many people…so many children. After a while, the noise from the Disney loud speakers got to us, so we decamped the...
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