Another cruise. We were on another cruise. It felt like I never left the last cruise, but here we were again. Do any of you feel that way on embarkation day? That familiar sense of déjà vu, that no matter how much (or how little) time has passed, it feels like you’ve never left? For Read more
I have this…thing…a connection…a spidey sense — to my cellular service. On the morning of debarkation, I’ll wake up in the middle of the night, reach for my phone, turn it off airplane mode and wait with rapt anticipation to see if the upper left hand corner lights up with bars of service. Cellular service Read more
Up to this point, I had never been on a cruise as short as this four day Havana cruise. And while I’m sure I’ve been on cruises that only had one sea day, we also usually repurpose a port day for an island we’ve visited numerous times before as a sea day (I’m looking at Read more
Day two in Havana began with a little more urgency and a little less structure than our first day had. Our itinerary had the ship overnighting in Havana, which meant we were still in our destination when we woke up, but we had a back onboard time of 11:00 am, which meant that anything we Read more
Back last spring, when we were about to visit Russia, I was absolutely terrified. I wasn’t sure how anything could possibly prepare me to travel to a place unlike anywhere I’d ever been before. I had the same sense of anxiety tinged excitement for Havana. None of my friends had been to Havana. Most people Read more
