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                    <title>Day 19  Saturday  Oct 13  Disembark in Ft Lauderdale</title>
                    <description>Today is the last day of our vacation so understandably it is the least enjoyable day. But all turned out well so we did not have any catastrophes at the end of the cruise to ruin everything. Read on to hear the details. First be advised that we have updated a few additional paragraphs to yesterdays entry so there are some more items for you to read there. We were scheduled for SelfHelp ex</description>
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                    <title>Day 18  Friday  Oct 12  Last Day at Sea</title>
                    <description>Hello one more time from the Island Princess. We continued today on our cruise back to Florida. Earlier today they reported that we were about 50 minutes off the coast of Cuba. Anyway we should arrive on schedule. This morning we slept in until almost 800  tomorrow will be a much earlier morning  so we wanted to be well rested at the end of our cruise. We went up to the breakfast buffet and</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceans-and-Seas/Caribbean/blog-749501.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 17  Thursday  Oct 11  Back at Sea</title>
                    <description>Hello from the Island Princess  somewhere in the Caribbean and unfortunately heading home. We have two sea days left and we are going to enjoy them for as long as it lasts. We slept in this morning without any wakeup call and completed a good nights rest. Somehow yesterday had been kind of tiring so this is a good day for doing very little. We had a little breakfast in the Horizon Court a</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceans-and-Seas/Caribbean/blog-749346.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 16  Wednesday  Oct 10  Aruba </title>
                    <description>Today we arrived in Aruba as our final portofcall of the cruise. Aruba is a comparatively small island measuring only about 19.5 miles by 6 miles wide at the widest. There are only a couple of high points on the island. Aruba has a very dry climate with only 16 inches of rain annually. The interior is dotted with lots of cactus and the windswept dividivi trees. There are picturesque sandy beac</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/blog-749163.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 15  Tuesday  Oct 9  Cartagena Columbia</title>
                    <description>Welcome to Cartagena. This is the first time we have ever been South America. We can check off a new continent from our todo list. The ship docked a little after 700 this morning but our tour did not start until after 900. So we did not have to get up especially early and we were able to have a leisurely breakfast. The Horizon Court was pretty busy but our evening waiter Francis found us a ta</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Cartagena/blog-748959.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 14  Monday  Oct 8  Transit the Panama Canal</title>
                    <description>This was the Signature Event of our cruise  going through the Panama Canal This was quite an amazing day. I guess ships go through here all the time 40 were scheduled today but this was our first trip through the canal and it was really special. The Canal Pilot arrived on the ship at 545 and David was up dressed and out the door by 600. It was a little cloudy on the horizon so sunrise ov</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Panama/Panama/Panama-Canal/blog-748898.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 13  Sunday  Oct 7  Fuerte Amador Panama</title>
                    <description>Hello from Fuerte Amador Fort Amador here at the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal. This is a special day being the 8th anniversary of us becoming grandparents. You see today is Alex Chinns 8thbirthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALEX We anchored in the bay along with a couple of dozen other ships waiting to go through the canal. However we are staying here all day and will not go through until to</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Panama/Panama/Panama-Canal/blog-748344.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 12  Saturday  Oct 6  Back at Sea</title>
                    <description>Hello from the Island Princess cruising in the Pacific again. We are back in the Central Time Zone after resetting the clocks last night. Before we describe todays activities lets explain that we have added photos to yesterdays blog AND have added some additional thoughts to that entry which we did not remember last night. There is even more to say about Costa Rica but your will have t</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceans-and-Seas/Pacific/blog-748136.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 11  Friday  Oct 5  Puntarenas Costa Rica</title>
                    <description>Hello from Costa Rica.  WOW what an excellent day in port Lets start with a little background information first.  The country was named by the Spanish Explorers based on rumors of gold and vast riches which could only mean that this section of Central America was the costa rica  the Rich Coast. ltbr clearall gt Costa Rica occupies a unique position lying between two oceans and two </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/blog-747976.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 10  Thursday  Oct 4  Fifth Sea Day</title>
                    <description>Hello from a much smoother Pacific Ocean. We continue to head south today but today the weather is sunny and warm and fairly smooth sailing today. So we are happy to have a better weather report today. Last night was the Presidential Debate and it was available to watch on the big movie screen on the pool deck or on one of your cabin TV channels. As a small political comment about 13 of the pe</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/blog-747805.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 9  Wednesday  Oct 3  Fourth Sea Day</title>
                    <description>We wanted to go to sea in a ship and today was our chance to experience it when it felt like a real ocean instead of a lake. We had strong winds all day and you could definitely feel the ships motion either while you were sitting or when walking around. The noon report from the bridge said that it was 86 degrees and we were sailing southeast at 24 miles per hour aided by a 52 mph wind from the</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceans-and-Seas/Pacific/blog-747633.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 8  Tuesday  Oct 2  Third Sea Day</title>
                    <description>Hello from the big blue Pacific ocean. Notice we did not include the words quiet or smooth. About 330 in the morning we sailed through a fairly big thunderstorm. We heard it and saw the lightening but we didnt get up to watch. Other did and described it as very heavy rain. We just went back to sleep. In the morning it was sunny again but this afternoon became overcast and periodically there w</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceans-and-Seas/Pacific/blog-747483.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 7  Monday  Oct 1  Cabo San Lucas</title>
                    <description>This morning we arrived in Mexico at Cabo San Lucas and anchored in the Sea of Cortez. About 1000 years ago Cabo San Lucas was part of the Mexican mainland. Then a massive rupture of the San Andreas Fault sent the waters of the Pacific crashing into the newly formed depression creating the Sea of Cortez and the Baja Peninsula. Lying at the very tip of Baja where the Pacific meets the Sea of Cor</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceans-and-Seas/Pacific/blog-747302.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 6  Sunday  Sept 30  Second Day at Sea </title>
                    <description>Had trouble getting on the satelite last night so this is a little late. Today we got up around 800 and had a wonderful breakfast in the Horizon Court which is on one of the top decks. They offered a breakfast on the pool deck this morning but all they had were pancakes and French toast and we wanted bacon and eggs so we ate at the Horizon Court buffet. Anyway with the time change many peop</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceans-and-Seas/Pacific/blog-747196.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 5  Saturday  Sept 29  First Day at Sea </title>
                    <description>HelloWe started the day with the sit down breakfast in the Bordeaux Dining Room. We were seated with a couple from England who had started the cruise in Anchorage and had taken the Alaskan Cruise the 2day cruise from Vancouver to San Francisco and were staying on all the way to Ft Lauderdale. They said that each time the cruise changed they had to move to a different cabin but that the</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceans-and-Seas/Pacific/blog-746822.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 4  Friday  Sept 28  Boarding the Ship</title>
                    <description>Today we start the sailing portion of our trip. We have had a great couple of days visiting in California and learned about many additional places we could have visited if wed allowed ourselves additional days but the ship sails today and we arent going to miss the ship.. Before leaving the hotel this morning David had time to add pictures to the Wednesday and Thursday episodes. If </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/blog-746655.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 3  Sept 27  Tour San Francisco</title>
                    <description>Today was another fun day touring in California. We started in Santa Cruz at the Dream Inn. It is a really nice hotel and we really appreciate Janel and Kelly for arranging it for us. But we had said our Goodbyes last night so we hopped in the car had breakfast on the road and headed north this morning. Coming south we had traveled the highways and interstates which was efficient but not too ex</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/blog-746458.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 2  Sept 26  Wednesday  Visit Santa Cruz</title>
                    <description>Today was a wonderful visit to Santa Cruz with Davids sister Janel her husband Kelly and later having dinner with her daughter and soninlaw Rebecca and Brendan. The day began by sleeping in at the hotel in Hayward and then having their complementary breakfast. We packed an overnight bag and headed off for Santa Cruz a little over an hour away. Our arrival was planned for noon so Janel cou</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/blog-746289.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 1  Off to California</title>
                    <description>Were off The time has come again for another wonderful trip. The suitcases have been carefully packed everything is as prepared as possible to leave the house and our friends Ken and Terri Schmalbeck have taken us to the Airport. Elizabeth will be watching things at home so we can have a worryfree vacation. So let the good times begin Janet stayed up late last night to print boarding passe</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Hayward/blog-746003.html</link>
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                    <title>Preparing for our 2012 Panama Canal Adventure</title>
                    <description>This is the beginning of another wonderful 2012 trip for the Garvins. We are leaving on September 25 and will post updates as regularly as possible so you can share in our adventure. Thanks to Elizabeth and Valerie for watching the house and tending the cats so we can go on this cruise.Once again we are beginning a tremendous trip  this time from the US West Coast to the US East Coast through </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Missouri/Florissant/blog-742001.html</link>
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