31-Day Tally
Broken Hip: 1 • Fell onboard ship, spent 5 days in Cuban hospital awaiting evacuation Heart Attack: 1 • Survived and sent home Cases of...
Con Tiki
Though the Viking Excursion Bible suggests we buy tikis and other Marquesas handicrafts while we’re onshore tomorrow, at yesterday’s...
Cure for Loneliness at Sea
I mean, besides wine and espresso gelato. Some time ago one of my at-home bridge buddies asked me, ‘Won’t you get lonely for five...
Rite of Passage: ‘Kiss the Fish!’
‘Calling all Pollywogs who have never crossed the Equator. You must appear before Aegir, Norse God of the Seas, and confess your crimes....
Where am I? Damned if I know!
Inquiring minds have asked me for more nautical detail and I have no source except Captain Knutsen’s daily noontime announcement over the...
Shipboard Codes
Code Brown. Code Gold. And, tragically, Code Alpha. Today, and once a week, the entire crew participated in a drill mandated by...
Pacific Pranayama Poolside
Here we are, somewhere in the Pacific. Here’s where we’re headed, sort of. Here we are on deck at 8 a.m., pranayama-ing. The Viking Sun...
Sunrise, Sunset
I seem to recall posting a picture of a sunrise some days back. You’ll have to take my word for it, I have seen the sun rise this trip....
Mutiny Averted*! *for the time being
We have set sail on the really high seas — out across the Pacific. Next stop, Taiohae, Nuku Hiva, French Polynesia, one week from today....
A Grand Day Out, to quote Wallace & Gromit
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