Category Archives: Holiday Cruises 2013

Return of the Gremlins – At Sea – [01/03/2014]

The last day of the cruise is always the busiest. The last day of the cruise with an entirely new internet system was something myself and my trainers and co-workers were dreading to begin with (I was joking that I … Continue reading

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World at Our Feet – At Sea – [01/02/2014]

If you don’t know you can’t pick yourself up by the scruff of the neck and hold yourself at arm’s length maybe you can – Polgara The Sorceress, David Eddings Sometimes I find it hard to believe that there was … Continue reading

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Looking Across – Grand Cayman – [01/02/2014]

It’s so surreal when one can look across the water from their current ship and see the ship they just left before the holidays. It’s like looking into a snippet of your own past. Not that I don’t seem to … Continue reading

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In Like A Lion – At Sea – [01/01/2014]

New Year’s Day has come in like a Lion, and 2013 definitely did not go out like a lamb, at least not out here. The seas were rough enough last night (and still are this morning) that everything in the … Continue reading

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Postcards from the Edge – At Sea – [12/31/2013]

Over the years, New Year’s Eve has been a great many things to me. When I was a child, and actually well into when I was a young adult, New Year’s Eve was a working night. I grew up the … Continue reading

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Suspended… – Panama Canal – [12/30/2013]

I never thought I would see the Panama Canal, let alone be sitting at my desk watching it slide past the ship for the 5th, perhaps 6th time – and that’s not me purposely name-dropping, I honestly have lost track. … Continue reading

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From Dream To Dream – Panama Canal – [12/30/2013]

One day I’ll fly away Leave all this to yesterday Why live life from dream to dream? And dread the day…when dreaming ends? In the midst of everything else that’s been going on ‘off page’ I nearly completely lost sight … Continue reading

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Daydreams of the Wild – At Sea – [12/29/2013]

Amongst my current batch of reading is a book entitled Women in the Wild. I’ve been eying it for a few seasons now, but I’ve never picked it up – mostly because I don’t really read non-fiction. But it came … Continue reading

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All That Keeps You Sane – At Sea – [12/29/2013]

The wise woman does what she knows If it’s fighting she fights If it’s sewing, she sews When the tension inside overflows and goes too far […] Grab a needle, grab a thimble if it’s all that keeps you sane … Continue reading

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Sunrise, Sunset – Costa Rica – [12/28/2013]

It never ceases to amaze me how quickly sunset comes out here. One moment the sun is blazing just above the horizon, the next it has dropped line a coin into a penny candy machine and the sky has gone … Continue reading

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