Blogs from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States, North America - page 10

Sorry for the multiple entries, but I wrote one like a month ago and I thought I owed you an update of the present day. I'm in Fort Lauderdale today. We finished Europe and crossed the Atlantic (with a Norwalk outbreak to keep us company), and now we're doing 10 day Caribbean runs. We stopped in Nassau after the crossing and I got to reminisce a little. It was weird going there every week for 11 months and then not having seen it for a year. And we were docked with the Fascination that day so it was even more surreal for me. Anyway, we've done one Caribbean run so far. It's not a great route. I like Aruba a Curacao and got a pretty decent sunburn from liking it so much, but Panama and Costa ... read more

Three Yacht mates and friends traveling together. We took a bus from St. Tropez to Nice where we flew to Paris. It rain all the time but it didn't matter Paris is beautiful in any season and we had lost of fun when clubbing the first night, sightseeing and dining the second day and repeat on Sunday. But I will never forget that we got denied to enter the Buddha Bar boooooo :(... read more

Dear Friends & Family, This is a new thing I'm trying, instead of postcards. Today we begin our vacation holiday. Walt & Jan Albright are our travel partners. We fly from San Diego to Ft. Lauderdale Florida. We overnight, get up early and drive to the Florida Everglades. We then travel down the Keys for our first stop, half way down the Keys. The next morning we travel all the way down to Key West for 2 nights. Saturday we drive back up to Ft. Lauderdale and organize for our Cruise aboard Celebrity's Infinity for our 14 night cruise through the Panama Canal and back to San Diego. The ship departs Sunday Oct. 19 at 5:00 PM EST. We have stops in the Grand Cayman's, Columbia, Panama, Costa Rica, 3 Mexico stops and finally, on Nov. ... read more

Greetings everyone...... If you lived in south Florida, you can could understand why I'm anxious for our fall to start. In the rest of the US of A, autumn started on 22 September, but you'd never know it here. "Summer" started in June and I can't wait until November for it to end. During the course of some slow days at the shop, I found a 12 day repositioning cruise to Fort Luaderdalefor $399.00 (of course plus fuel surcharge and taxes). Sure, there were a couple drawbacks to the price: 1.....it started in Barcelona, Spain 2.....it was on a Royal Caribbean mega ship but hey, $399 is hard to turn down. So, I booked the trip along with my 2 time transatlantic buddy Dick Burns. I'll fly up to Boston on 27 October (had thought about ... read more

The excitement never ends...my plane from Peru left on 6/26 at 11:00 P.M. and landed on time in Ft. Lauderdale on 6/27 at 6:15 A.M., but we had to sit for about 15 minutes waiting for a gate. This gave me (and about 50 other passengers) about 30 minutes to clear immigration and customs before our connecting flights left at 7:00 A.M. I sped through immigration with 25 minutes to spare...SWEET! Then, had to claim the baggage...as the conveyor belt spun, black bag, black bag, black bag, black bag with red bow, black bag, black bag, black bag with pink polka dot ribbon, black bag, big backpack (not mine), medium backpack (not mine), black bag...continue for 10 minutes minutes...carousel stops...many panicked faces...carousel starts again after playing strange fun house music...black bag, black bag...finally my lovely ORANGE ... read more