Curacao

 Pronounced kur-ah-sow, Curacao met our expectations. Our stop had us in Willemstad, the capitol of the island. While it had some blight, overall a beautiful and unique place.

Full disclosure, I have not previewed the following video. Enjoy, I hope, a walking tour of Willemstad complete with the swinging bridge!

Next stop Bonaire



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Amber Cove

 Amber cove is a purpose built stop by Carnival in the Republica Dominica. By plan, we had it to ourselves with no other ship. Failed in taking any photos so will give overview.

 Been there twice, rained on both times. No plans to visit again.



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Half Moon Cay

 This a island owned by Carnival cruise lines. We had the place to ourselves being the only ship. For us that made it near perfect. What was not perfect was my pictures and videos. A relaxing day on a beautiful beach.

 We were here last year and will be again next year. Fits the bill for our type of cruise. Next stop Amber Cove.


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Miami

 Our cruise left from Miami so we went down a day early to play tourist. We went to the historic art deco area of South Beach. In doing so we utilized Uber for the first time. Recommend you download the app and try them instead of a cab.

 In spite of some issues it was a good cruise. After having said we would not go we signed up for next years cruise.


more later from Half Moon Cay



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Cruise

We leave bright and early Wednesday to fly to Miami. There we will board the ship for 10 nights at sea. Difficult and expensive to post daily updates while at sea. I will instead post a review with photos and videos after we return on the 12th. The picture below shows our route.

 As always you can click on picture to enlarge it

bon voyage!

Girls just want to have fun

Lack of proper supervision leads to this type activity. Smooching in public...the shame of it all!

10 days till departure on cruise to southern Caribbean.


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2018

 Well we have survived the holidays once again. Now our thoughts turn to plans for this years adventures. Need to work on more reservations but have no favorites, or desired locations that are not yet secured. It dawns on me I failed to post anything from Christmas at Lake Corpus Christie State Park, so here you go.

nice fishing pier, caught half a dozen white bass

campfire dutch oven cooking

 Only two weeks till Mary sails away on a cruise with her sister, one month till our cruise.






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