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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. [...]
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The second of our series of Sea Days. The Agenda is looking pretty packed with up to 6 different things going on at one time on the ship. The Event Planners are working overtime to keep us busy.
As I said yesterday, Captain Harris and his crew are pretty smart cookies. [...]
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Today is the start of our 4 days at sea. We have about 1800 miles to get from Nicaragua to San Diego with no stops. The entertainment staff have their work cut out for them to keep everyone happy for the four days we were supposed to be stopping in Mexico. [...]
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Welcome to Corinto, Nicaragua. We ended up backtracking by heading south to Nicaragua for this historical day for Holland America. This is first time a Holland America ship has landed in Nicaragua. What’s really amazing is, like yesterday, even though this has never been a designated port, somehow there were excursions [...]
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Holland America has been amazing coming up with alternatives for Mexico on extremely short notice. Unfortunately there aren’t a lot of choices. Our first new port is Puerto Quetzal, Guatemala. It’s not just the availability of port to dock at but also arrangements of activities and land transportation for [...]
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Here we are on another Sea Day. A large number of passengers started the day with a 5 km Walk for the Cure for Breast Cancer Research. It was amazing how many passengers participated – even after the late night before. Holland America’s fundraising for this cause has [...]
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A day I have been waiting for – Costa Rica!! There were several eco-tours available from bus tours to zip-lining. I don’t think any of our group decided to go zip-lining, but I could be wrong. Rick and I were definitely the only ones NOT to see a monkey on [...]
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Today is a Sea Day. That means we don’t get to set foot on land and that it is Formal Night, our second. We were not really at sea per se but were cruising Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica. The ship would cruise down the coast one way and then [...]
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The Panama Canal, approximately 80 km long, unites the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean. It officially opened on August 15, 1914 and has seen about 1,000,000 vessels travel through it. The canal knocks off about 100,000 miles to get from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Talk about screwing up a [...]
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Carti Island, San Blas Archipelago, Panama
Carti Island is one of the biggest islands in this Archipelago of no less than 365 islands but it takes about half an hour to see most of it. This small island is home to a large community of Cuna Indians who sell their [...]
