I wrote this last month, in anticipation of Embarkation Day — which has arrived! I’ve never been on a cruise and I don’t come from a...

Official Day #1 was consumed by Transit. Today, #2, is the real start of the trip. A full day in Miami with a Viking-arranged city bus...

Up since 4, so this will be short. Only event was arriving at the Loews Miami South Beach and they’d never heard of me. They managed to...

It’s 11:15 and I‘m eating dinner... very Spanish! Around 3 a.m. I may regret this. But the fridge is totally empty, the kitchen floor...

Don’t have a pictorial record of yesterday’s send-off lunch with mon ami Nigel, but here’s the penultimate bon voyage event last night —...

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Bon Voyage party #5, this time with my Thursday bridge buddies... preceded, of course, by a few hours of bridge! Thank you Margaret, Sue...

Once upon a time, many decades ago, an old steamer trunk lived in our attic. My mother’s, when she moved around the country during WWII,...