Category Archives: Cruise
Carnival Splendor part the third
So the Splendor has been towed to San Diego. Here’s a nice collection of video links from a variety of sources. Naturally the media has turned this into a “why cruising is unsafe” incident, though no one was hurt. Thank you media for always overreacting to things. Today I went for another park run. Ugh. [...]
Carnival Splendor update
Here’s a link to cruisecritic’s round up of the days news about the Carnival Splendor (I posted about this yesterday). For those of you new to my blog, I am a big fan of cruising. I’ve been on three cruises, two on Carnival and one on Royal Caribbean. My most recent cruise was over the [...]
Carnival Splendor
As a cruise aficionado, I was startled today when I heard the news that the Carnival Splendor had had a fire in the engine room and was stranded off the coast of Ensenada, Mexico. I hope all the people are doing ok–it seems as if no one was hurt but that the power and PLUMBING [...]
Cayman Islands/Cozumel, Mexico
Just an update post–the last from our cruise vacation in August. I got the waterproof camera photos back so I wanted to post a few here. The first few are from our jet ski tour in the Cayman Islands. We went to Stingray City, which is not a real city–it’s a place where the water [...]
Tuesday night randomness
Just a couple random thoughts: I have now taught over 20 new students in the past week. I used to get nervous about new students. Not anymore! I guess experience is the key I ran three miles today–still not all in a row (meaning I take walk breaks) but it was easy. I could have [...]
Day 7: Sea Day (plus wrap-up)
Well, finally our cruise was nearing its conclusion (sad!). I slept it quite a bit, ordered room service, and read outside on the balcony for awhile. I had still managed to finish about 7 paperbacks during my week! There were a few interesting activities happening through the day, but we didn’t really make it to [...]
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