for your enjoyment

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 10^th and board the Seabourn Sojourn for a cruise around the world, ending in Athens Greece on June 5^th. 

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 27^th 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.