The cruise ship stayed overnight at Cartegena, so we had a unique opportunity to be ashore in the evening. The three of us went on a horse-drawn carriage ride the first evening, stopping briefly at the old fort outside the walls and then spending the majority of the time going up and down narrow streets, […]
Don’t like the title? Well, “lock and zoo” doesn’t have the same ring to it, does it? And I couldn’t think of anything better. We chose this trip based on the zoo component as we had already seen the first few locks in the Panama canal on a previous cruise. This time, we saw the […]
Over the course of the cruise, three employees of the Corning Museum of glass put on a show, creating beautiful works of art from molten glass. At the end of the cruise, six works are auctioned off for the benefit of future students who want to work in glass. Luckily for both our wallets and […]
We finally got to Costa Rica, our previous attempt some years ago being foiled when strong winds prevented the ship from docking. Anna and I went on a trip to a research facility in the Veragua rainforest, where we took an aerial tram down into a valley for a hair-raising walk/climb up and down wet […]
We flew down to Fort Lauderdale a day early, to avoid any troubles with delayed flights, weather, etc. and stayed in the same little hotel we stayed at last year. Maybe it was even the same room. Anyway, we needed to eat that night, and Mary-Jo had researched a seafood restaurant. There was a short wait […]
Considering I thought I was going to be photographing flowers, I came across a fairly wide assortment of animals on this trip. The only subject I was expecting was the butterfly assortment as there is a “farm” near the dock at St. Thomas. The turtle and parakeet were captive, but the lizard or iguana or […]
