October 25, 2009 “If the sea rolls, I puke”! This is the statement that Donna, the perfect lady that she is, made when Bill said we had to take the ferry in Galveston!!! But I’m getting ahead of myself…We left San Antonio this morning before 9am. We wanted to get to Galveston early enough to swim in the Gulf of Mexico and our hotel in Galveston was right on the ocean… ($46.00 a room, not bad!). We arrived about 1pm. Bill, Donna and I went for a ride to the beach…further down than our hotel where the beach was a steep [View Full Entry]

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For the most part, things are pretty much back to “normal”, or as normal as it gets on ships. Our first cruise out of dry dock has come to an end. Today we’re in Galveston, our home port, disembarking and embarking guests. This morning we had our Coast Guard inspection, which can often be a very long and hot and frustrating drill. But it wasn’t too bad, we were done in half an hour. And then, I was able to get off the ship! I only had a couple hours, so not much time to do anything too huge. But I [View Full Entry]

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Already my week on the Conquest has come to an end. There was a second formal night, which meant another night out at the disco. Lots of crew were out that night. I spent the night chatting with friends and dancing. I stayed until the disco closed and security cleared everyone out - then I was at a friend’s cabin after. My second last day we were in Cozumel. I was meant to go on a tour with Lonnel, but then she was on port manning and couldn’t get off the ship. I didn’t manage to locate another group of friends [View Full Entry]

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I have been spending a lot of time at Crystal Beach this summer. My Parents beach house is complete and it has an amazing view of the Beach and water. I am going to move there some day. I think that it will take a few years to make that happen, but with some hard work and a little luck; I will be living down there and loving life. If you have not had the opportunity to visit Crystal Beach, you are missing out on a wonderful beach and a great place to hand out. Well, Have a great week and [View Full Entry]

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Hey everybody! I'm Jeff and this is my first blog posting ever... thanks for stopping by! I've been going to the beach almost every weekend lately so I thought I'd kick it off with a few shots from the most recent trip. My buddy Ryan and I headed out to Surfside Beach on Saturday morning hoping to catch some rays before the storm hit. And of course a beach trip isn't complete without getting stuck at least a few times... this trip I didn't waste any time at all! [img=http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y219/silverb [View Full Entry]

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CS: 25th February 2009: We went through the channel of the Caribbean between mainland Venezuela and the islands of Netherland Antilles with Curacao well off to our port side. We have come around the tip of the headland and are likely to be at Puerto Cabello later this afternoon, travelling at around 17 knots. I tune in to many radio programs on FM from Curacao, broadcasting in Dutch. We arrived in the bay around 5pm. It is quite hazy over the land; we are in a large open Bay with tall mountains down to the sea in most places along both [View Full Entry]

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ONWARDS, to New Orleans.... Wallet: still gone Winds: still strong Weather: still chilly Spirits: HIGH!! That's all for now!! [View Full Entry]

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Well. Here we are in Hitchcock, Texas and I can't lie and say we're not in need of a little encouragement. Facing snow, thumb-tack like thorns that could be more accurately described as daggers, frigid winds, sub-zero temperatures and miles and miles of nothingness in New Mexico, we made the decision to bypass part of Texas by hopping on the Amtrak in El Paso and taking it to Houston. Unfortunately, "hopping on the Amtrak" proved to be a little more difficult that was hoped. But I'll backtrack a bit, to where our troubles really began. Last update we had just cycled [View Full Entry]

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My weekend in east Texas turned out to be rather interesting. Although I wasn’t able to take as many pictures as I wanted because of the stormy weather, I did get to see places I had not seen before. We (my companion and I) left San Antonio on Friday morning and headed east on interstate 10. It’s a pretty boring, uneventful drive. I have driven it so many times (mostly for work-related reasons) that I feel like I know every crack and crevice along the road. Interstate 10 (both east and west) in Texas is a major truck route so the [View Full Entry]

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Galveston oh Galveston: 23/06-29/06 We fancied a week at the beach and Galveston on the Gulf Coast wasn't far away. It wasn't going to be much more expensive to hire a car than it was for the buses so we went out to Austin airport to pick up a bright yellow Chevy. We drove past Houston and over the bridge to Galveston Island and arrived in the weather beaten and slightly run down resort. We found our hostel which was right on the beach. Although it was a hostel we had a private room with a small balcony. After a stroll [View Full Entry]

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