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From Bali, we spent a day at sea and then two days in Indonesia. For whatever reason, the Immigrations department had an early, 7:30, manditory face to face meeting for all guests and would not let us back on until everyone cleared. Then, the next day, they did it...

It’s a lake out here.  We have left Indonesia and are headed to the Philippines.  We are traveling due North and crossed the equator in the middle of the night.  So, we are still a day ahead of you, but we are no longer upside down.  It feels good...

Well, I apologize for the long break since my last post.  I guess I needed a vacation from my vacation.  I feel like the little boy that never spoke a word until he was 5.  Then he said very clearly, “soups cold”.  His parents were so surprised...

Screenshot Once we left Melbourne we stopped in Tazmania, and then sailed west(.net), and we are still sailing west 3 days later.  Even though we have been here several times, I didn’t realize just haw big Australia is.  It’s as big as the continental US.  Crazy.  At...

We are in Australia, the land down under.  And now we are in Melbourne, the very south point of Australia.  So, we are, down under in the down under.  We arrived in Melbourne at noon, it’s kind of like Portland in that we took on a pilot at 8 this morning and wondered...

We were scheduled to leave Sydney harbor at 4, but there was a medical emergency involving a crew member and we didn’t leave until a little after 5.  We later found out that it was Samuel.  Samuel is the wonderful voice you hear when you order room...