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Day 47: Montevideo, Uruguay
Looong time since the last post. Let’s just say that website editing in this part of the world has been a frustrating challenge and I will be doing it less often. This vacation is not about stress — it’s about sailing to exotic places and meeting interesting people from foreign lands…and drinking in their ports.…
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Day 34: Buzios, Brazil
Fun day in Buzios, after a great evening with our new friends Vic and Wendy from Guernsey, a place that sounds like heaven to us. Look it up if you aren’t familiar. Interesting history, especially in WWII. Although they are leaving us in a few days, we might have the chance to meet up with…
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Day 31: At Sea…but Still in Brazil
We haven’t seen a lot of Brazil, so there really is not too much to write about the last few days. At each port, the basic advice we get from the crew is “Uhhhh….try not to be robbed and/or murdered”. At our last port, Fortaleza (metro population >4 million), Oceania provided buses to take us…
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Day 27: Belem, Brazil
Where did all the days go? We’ve had quite a few sea days so there hasn’t been to much to write about, but we spent a day on a catamaran in Barbados and there was some day drinking starting at 10 am. Yes, one could have written about that if one had the sharp mind…
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Day 21: Gustavia, St. Barth; Day 22, Roseau, Dominica
Back-to-back port days for us. St. Barth is one of the smallest inhabited islands in the Caribbean, and it’s inhabited mostly by people of wealth and fame. It’s very French. The small harbor is choked with mega yachts and the narrow streets are lined with stores that are so exclusive, they don’t seem to need…
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Day 18: Port of Miami; Day 19: At Sea
From the fun and sun capital of the world, Miami Beach! That’s from the inrto to the Jackie Gleason show in the 60s, and it is a pretty great place. Miami Beach is an island across from the city of Miami and they keep it pristine. The South Beach portion along Ocean Drive is a…
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Day 16: George Town, Cayman Islands
Under local law businesses are closed on Sundays, which I think is a pretty great concept except when it impacts me. So instead of shopping, we went snorkeling. I had always heard that the waters in the Caribbean were blue, but, oh my, they are BLUE! We took a boat out to the USS Kittiwake…
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Day 15: Orange Bowl Comments
No, not the Ducks victory over Texas Tech (YAY!) Much more interesting is the fruit bowl in our room, which is replenished daily with a variety of, well…fruit. Whatever we consume is quickly replaced. A few days ago we ate a particularly good orange and in making small talk with the lovely people that manage…
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Day 13: Panama Canal Passage; Day 14: Cartagena, Columbia
I can finally access the Blog editor again! It seemed like a good idea to set up 2-factor authentication, but it started taking hours to get the code, far exceeding the 15 minute time limit for entering it. After many frustrating hours of trying to figure this out I was able to get in a…