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What can I say. This is what happens when a pandemic gets in the way of your travel plans for a couple of years. So in January 2021 we booked a cruise – from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida to London – by way of Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Mumbai, Rome. You get the picture. So buckle up buttercup and let’s see how this all plays out.
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One additional note. Our cruise ship has wifi. It’s supposed to work in the middle of the ocean. But I’m not sure how much bandwidth we’ll have to upload photos and videos, so posts might be delayed from time to time. Bear with me and we’ll see what we can do.
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We’re still a few days out from boarding but we’re heading to Norman for a family Christmas celebration before we leave the country. So far it feels like a normal trip to Oklahoma. It hasn’t occurred to us that we won’t see home again for many months. So we’ll take ’normal’ while we can and […]
Understanding that this itinerary is, at best, cast in jello – this is where it stands as of today. We’ll see where it ends up. My best guess is that I’ll know the itinerary once we dock in London on May 9. So having said that…
It’s gettin’ real. Yesterday we received our passports back from the visa service that Viking uses. We now have visas for Viet Nam, Australia, New Zealand, and Saudi Arabia. We’ve been assured that visas for other countries will be delivered either on board or at the port. But that’s yesterday. This morning we made the
OK, this isn’t a real post. I’m just setting up the links. At this point we’re making packing lists, to buy in Ft. Lauderdale lists, following the Cruise Critic Roll Call, beginning to think about wardrobe, researching ports and potential excursions, delving deeper into WordPress to make improvements to the blog, watching a bunch of