Every morning I was up around sunrise and out on the walking track to do my laps. If I remembered to take my small camera with me in my fanny pack, it pretty much guaranteed there would be no colour in the sky, or thick clouds, and if I forgot my camera, there would be spectacular […]
A short walk from the cruise ship berth in Cartagena is a gift shop and taxi terminal which has a number of outside exhibits including an enclosed area with many bird species, an open area with more parrots than you can shake a stick at, and a monkey troupe which occasionally visits to steal the bird’s […]
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 […]
