Andy Warhol is famous for saying, “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” Well, Neil used up about 6 seconds of his allotment as we came home from our vacation.
When we arrived at LaGuardia Airport in New York to check in for our flight home, we were dragging about six bags with [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2008
Jun
21
2008
Vacation = 10 Seconds of Fame
Jun
12
2008
Caribbean Vacation Photo Gallery
Here’s a link to a quick little gallery with some pictures from our vacation. We’ll be adding a better gallery when we get home! Now that we’re back, we’re working on adding more photos to this as we get the time…
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Jun
12
2008
Things We Learned While Cruising the Caribbean
Bring sunscreen. Lots of it. Because the markup in tourist traps is something like 10,000%. Okay, okay — 400%, but still…it’s sunscreen!!
Sea turtles can swim up to 25 miles per hour.
In colonial days, Bermudans ate their entire sea turtle population as soup. They ended up trying to repopulate the island by getting eggs from Costa [...]
Jun
12
2008
Caribbean Vacation, Days Eight and Nine - At Sea
This is the only way to travel — hour after hour of sitting in a lounge chair on the upper decks, soaking in the sun and hopping in the pool when you get too hot. Nothing to worry about except when one of the roving waiters will come around to take drink orders, and refreshing [...]
Jun
12
2008
Caribbean Vacation, Day Seven - Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos Islands
Grand Turk is the capital of Turks and Caicos Islands. Despite that, the island’s population more than doubled when our ship — which has about 4,500 people on board — docked. The island is about seven miles long and one-and-a-half miles wide, and it’s very, very flat. It’s also beautiful — this and Bermuda were [...]
Jun
12
2008
Caribbean Vacation, Day Six - St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Another day, another Caribbean shopping mecca!
We arrived in St. Thomas mid-morning, docking in a nice little port a few miles away from the downtown shopping areas. We headed straight to a little tour bus for our scheduled excursion, the “Best of St. Thomas” tour. We headed straight up into the hills of the island, giving [...]
Jun
12
2008
Caribbean Vacation, Day Five - San Juan, Puerto Rico
The first thing you notice about San Juan — especially in contrast with Bermuda — is that the port is actually close to the city. Of course, there are some drawbacks to that approach, including much more pressure from various tour hawkers and street vendors. We ran that gauntlet to find ourselves right on the [...]
Jun
12
2008
Caribbean Vacation, Day Four - At Sea
The lovely thing about “at sea” days is that there’s not much pressure to do anything. So we didn’t, apart from Geitra getting a facial and then each of us getting a nice massage. That’s definitely a great way to spend vacation. Beyond that, we didn’t do much besides hop in the swimming pools on [...]
Jun
12
2008
Caribbean Vacation, Day Three - Bermuda
Friday morning — the sun is out, and we’ve docked in Bermuda. The seas were a little rough, and we apparently almost passed Bermuda by until the last minute, when the captain made the decision that things were calm enough to dock. We arrived at the West End of Bermuda in the Royal Naval Dockyard [...]
Jun
10
2008
Caribbean Vacation, Day Two - At Sea
Our first full day on the ship was spent completely at sea — and with the morning spent getting caught up on events at home. After getting breakfast served in the cabin, we made a beeline for the Internet Café on board in order to check email and see what was happening in D.C. We [...]