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We are now getting ready for our last two sea days before landing in Vancouver. We had breakfast delivered again but it was too cold to go outside. The seas were especially rocky last night and pretty rough this morning. There was a lot of rocking going on. Here is the [...]
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We arrived at Avalon, Catalina early in the morning. Catalina is such a beautiful island with a cute little shopping area, wonderful restaurants and interesting architecture such as the Casino. The Casino in Avalon isn’t a casino as we have come to known them now but rather reverts back to the [...]
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Disembarkation Day for those ending their trip in San Diego. This was the worst disembarkation I have ever gone through. US Immigration and HAL were totally disorganized. Immigration required that all non-us citizens register whether they were disembarking or not and would not let anyone off the ship until everyone [...]
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Last day at sea for the first leg of my voyage. Thank God. It’s just a couple of days too much. Rick and I met with our group and then took them to the Disembarkation Briefing and Crew Farewell. The staff here have been totally confused by the fact that Rick [...]
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3rd day at sea. Another packed day with the Songwriting Seminar and Passenger Cabaret Class. The show is really coming together. With all of the great songs written about our missing Mexico Diane decided to merge the two classes so that the songwriters would have their works debuted at the Cabaret. [...]
