Avalon, Catalina, CA
January 12, 2024
Avalon Catalina Island CA.
Note, the IT guy on the ship could not sleep until he solved my problem. He messaged all of the other IT guys in the fleet and wow here it is. Enjoy
Not much has changed in the past 20+ years since I was last here. There is a new Brewery, but I didn’t partake. IKR, Steve missed opportunity to have a beer? Well, don’t worry we’re back on the ship and I have a beer in hand.
Well, I thought I booked the “perfect” suite. On one side we have a neighbor and on the other side are the lifeboats. As close to the middle of the ship as possible, both horizontally and vertically. On the Port(left) side of the ship(Sunnyside). We handpicked this room for several reasons, it’s midship, that means we are close to everything. It also means that we are “the middle” of the teeter totter, i.e. less motion. Well, on “tender” days, the lifeboats are tenders. Today, the first tender left the ship about 6:15. So, at somewhere before 0 dark 30 and a really good dream, the noise began. So, this is now an earplug suite on all tender days.
We were treated to some great views of a pod of dolphins this morning at breakfast. In a few minutes, we will set sail for Hawaii, 5 days away. Sailwest.net.
Hope to be sending you some wildlife (off the boat) pictures in the next days.
Enjoy!
Luggage Shipping Day
Today the luggage shippers come to our house and pick up all of our luggage. It’s supposed to be in our cabin when we board. Let’s see how this is going to work. LOL.
This ends a month of packing and panicking for Kim. WOW. This also makes this entire trip more of a reality for us. Less than 2 weeks to go.
It was nice seeing comments from all of you that commented, this is going to be fun to communicate to all through.
Stay tuned!
This ends a month of packing and panicking for Kim. WOW. This also makes this entire trip more of a reality for us. Less than 2 weeks to go.
It was nice seeing comments from all of you that commented, this is going to be fun to communicate to all through.
Stay tuned!
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December 22, 2023
Welcome to our traveling blog. We are preparing and packing for the longest trip ever. We are going to sea for 5 months. That’s right, we fly to Los Angeles on January 10th and board the Seabourn Sojourn for a cruise around the world, ending in Athens Greece on June 5th.
A little over 20 years ago, Kim and I met while traveling in Aruba. A year later we got married on New Years Eve. We have traveled many times since. We have been to Antarctica, The Artic, and many points in between, we’ve chased the northern lights and have been where the sun never rises, we’ve been where the sun never sets too. We consider ourselves very blessed to have seen all these things.
Seabourn is not new to us, we have sailed to Norway, Greece, and Antarctica. It is by far our favorite Cruise Line; their ships are small, and their service is outstanding.
Now, we (Kim) are finishing our packing, and the shippers will come to our house on December 27th to ship our luggage to Los Angeles. Then we will work on shutting things down in preparation for our flight January 10th. They offer a limousine service to the airport, but we are in Podunk Cathlamet and they don’t service us, so our limo driver is David Kirkby.
We will be posting pictures and filling you in on our daily excursions, I’m not promising to write every day, but enough to keep you coming back for more. You can follow along with our itinerary and if you click on Marine Traffic, it will show you where the ship is in real time.
We hope you enjoy our blog and look forward to your comments and questions. Please feel free to share this site with others that you know will like following along. sailwest.net
Merry Christmas all.