January 14th, 1st sea day after our stop in the interior of Bresil on the Amazone River. A few days ago, we were in Barbados, where we visited the Mount Gay Rhum museum, bottling plant and store, then, after a short taxi ride around the island (14miles by 25); we were dropped off at the Careenage downtown from which we walked home to the ship. A few days at sea later, we stopped for the morning at Les Iles du Salut (formally known as Devil’s Island) in French Guyane; a tropical paradise where roam the eerie ghosts of 55 thousand French [View Full Entry]

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January 8th, 3rd sea day, last night was the captain’s reception and formal. We are very busy attending seminars, talks and workshops. At 10 this morning was a ½ hour introduction to Barbados which we will visit tomorrow; following that at 11, a Doctor Wolf, historian, gave the 3rd talk about the history of the Americas-Colombus, rum, slavery, battles…gold, etc. This afternoon, a seminar on digital photography was held and then Doctor Miller, a classical guitarist who entertained us last night retold anecdotes about musical writer from the early 20th century and played favourite [View Full Entry]

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Terry and I are leaving God's country shortly to travel 107 days- 105 on the good ship Priensendam of the Holland America line. We will be boarding the ship in Fort Lauderdale and going south. First stop is Barnados and towns on the eastern coast of South America; we cross the Equator around the Amazon river where January and February become Summer. Big towns there are Rio the Janeiro in Brazil and Buenos Aires in Argentina. We continue down to Antarctica, see Cape Horn, penguins then travel by the Seychelle Islands as we cross the south Atlantic to Africa arriving at [View Full Entry]

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Son Number one is leaving for a while to teach English in Japan [View Full Entry]

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