When I woke up, the sun was already up (remember it comes up at 6:00 AM), and I looked at my watch. For our excursion, we had to be ready to go at 9:00 AM. My watch said 8:15, so I kind of freaked out and got Marga up. We showered and [...]

We were told to have our luggage packed and leave it outside our cabin in the hallway before going to bed the night before. This seemed rather ridiculous when we woke up the next day and realized that we didn’t hit land until noon. But oh well. We had breakfast and spent [...]

Like Aruba, Curaçao is Dutch, and the population speaks four languages. We went with our internet-informed friends onto shore and quickly found a taxi driver, Franklin A. Concepcion, who wanted to take us to a few notable places. We negotiated him down from $20/person to $25/couple and off we rode.

After a full day at sea, we finally arrived to the Dutch island of Aruba.

After a photo-heavy day 3, we left the camera in the cabin and explored the ship during our full day at sea.

When I woke up on day three, it was immediately obvious that I had gotten a really bad sunburn the day before on the idyllic beach of Barbados. I had put on sunscreen before leaving the boat, but never put any more on while we were at the beach. And I even spent [...]

Again on the second day, our clocks were still off, and we were wide awake at 5:00 AM. We figured it’d be silly to miss another Caribbean sunrise. And it was a good thing that we didn’t, because we saw a beautiful sunrise including a pretty cool atmospheric phenomenon.

The flight into Porlamar, Isla Margarita, Venezuela was as comfortable as a nine-hour flight in economy class can be. The plane wasn’t very full, and had a 2-4-2 seat configuration. Marga spent most of the time lying flat across the four seats in the middle trying to fight off her cold, waking occasionally [...]