Lisa
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4th Port: Puerto Quetzal, Guatemala
After two back-to-back days at sea, it felt nice to have the ship stop moving. Our shore excursion in Guatemala was called “Colonial Antigua” and we took a comfortable bus ride to get there with our tour guide, Winston, giving us the history of the country along the way. I was most fascinated by the…
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3rd Port: Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
The city of Puerto Vallarta had a pretty park to welcome us to shore. Our port time was shortened a bit from the tender delay problem yesterday evening, so Tony and I decided to just walk to a nearby shopping area. We could see a mall and a Sam’s Club a short distance down the…
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2nd Port: Cabo San Lucas, Mex.
This is our first port outside of the US and our first experience with using a Tender to get dockside. Some of the covered lifeboats stored on level seven were put into service today, and the process of getting them into the water was fun to watch from our balcony on level nine. Davits hold…
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1st Port: San Diego, CA
We had a beautiful, sunny, 70 degree day to enjoy our first port of call. After a leisurely breakfast and first round of Sudoku in the ship’s library, we disembarked. David has family here, and his nephew Josh, met us dockside with his Tesla. David was convinced we could all fit with me on Tony’s…
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Embarking and Leaving LA
We chose the latest embarkation time slot to have time to tour the USS Iowa this morning without feeling rushed. After rolling our big luggage for over a mile, going through security, and getting our all important room key card (which is used for everything), we found our room 9044 ready for us. In watching…
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The USS Iowa
The USS Iowa is a floating museum that is permanently docked near the cruise ship terminal and a short walk from our hotel. We ate breakfast at the hotel then stored our luggage to tour the battleship. Dad had to pay for his ticket but as Iowans, Tony and I were able to tour it…
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Arrival in Los Angeles
We flew into LAX the day before our cruise to make sure weather did not affect our timely arrival to the ship. As it was, there was snow in Denver that delayed the second leg of our flight. We arrived from Des Moines in time to talk with Dad at his gate before he took…
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We’re Going Cruising!
About a year ago my dad floated the idea of Tony and I joining him on a cruise through the Panama Canal. Of course, we thought that was a wonderful idea! He also invited my brother and his wife but they weren’t going to be available after recently traveling to Paris and the French countryside.…
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Trip Home
We packed up Monday morning to leave Ft. Collins with the intention of taking an off-the-usual-I-80 route home through Hastings, NE. We stopped short of Hastings because there was a gusty north wind that made driving our high-profile van a chore. Southwest Nebraska is hilly, and then very flat as you reach the high plains.…
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Ft. Collins Fun
Fort Collins has a fantastic Farmers Market on Saturday through the summer. Dad and I bought some goodies, including some Bavarian style pretzels from a vendor who explained his quest to make “authentic” pretzels like he enjoyed in Germany. We then dropped off some garden produce and Mitzi’s Flowers from the market to my brother’s…