Greenland onboard SilverWind
I think it takes a bit when you return from an epic journey; to digest what you have experienced and have an opportunity to put it inperspective. Traveling makes us better human beings, plain and simple. We learn more about other cultures, other places, other people – and ourselves Starting in Iceland, crossing the Denmark […]
Iceland
Earlier this year I was trying to decide what I wanted my 60th birthday to look like so a girlfriend and I settled on a 6 night trip to Iceland in search of waterfalls and northern lights. I had no illusions about the cold – I grew up i Canada and have been to Antarctica […]
Galapagos onboard Silver Origin
Seems pretty crazy that I just returned from Ecuador after spending a week onboard Silver Origin in the Galapagos Islands. This is not my first trip here BUT it is my first trip back here in ALOT of years; I began my career ‘on land’ after 18 years on cruise ships working for an Ecuadorian […]
Kayaking….Never Did I Imagine….
In the fall of 2019 a girlfriend that had a sit aboard kayak took me to Dunedin Causeway in Tampa Florida and invited me to have a paddle. Pretty cool, I thought; it was a lot easier to do than anticipated….somehow I expected to need more upper body strength – and I really (really) liked […]
Bermuda
Bermuda; What a Pleasure! An invitation from a old friend, Richard Joseph to join him for a week in Bermuda was too good to turn down so I found an AirBnB close to where he was staying in Somerset west end of the island and moved in the party. Years ago when I worked on […]
Antarctica with Aurora
A journey to the peninsula of Antarctica is a trip of a lifetime – and to tack on additional time to visit visits to South Georgia and the Falkland Islands made for a really educational and rewarding 23 day journey to the white continent. Now technically South Georgia and the Falkland Islands are SubAntarctic Islands – […]
Greece and Azamara Journey
An opportunity to travel is always welcome so when I was offered a cabin onboard Azamara Journey for their 5 night shakedown cruise from Pireaus (Patmos, Mykonos & Crete) – I was ALL in. Since it was a short cruise I opted to add 3 night before the voyage in Athens and this was just […]
Amboseli
Amboseli, established in 1974 and 4,500 feet above sea level, lives in the shadow of Mt Kilimanjaro and has been on my radar for years. Amboseli is famous because of its concentration of elephants – AND is home to the Super Tusker elephant; of which there are less than 20 in the world. What is […]
Celebrity Edge July 2021
A week onboard Celebrity Edge was a pleasant surprise. A girlfriend asked me to be her ‘plus one’ and with nothing but time on my hands I readily said yes. We sailed from Fort Lauderdale to Nassau, St Thomas and St Maarten. Incidentally – we were the first ship to arrive in both St. Thomas […]
Nairobi & Kenya
Kenya & Nairobi Kenya is a country of 224,000 square miles – about the size of Texas – and home to 51 million people – 4.4M of whom live in Nairobi, the capital – located only a few degrees south of the equator. With much fertile land, the country was colonized by the British East […]