Mary Louise Eklund

Tag: cruise

  • Monday Marginalia – Norwegian Dawn

    In February the week of Valentine’s Day Mike and I took a cruise. With the crazy changes that hit fast and furious after mainly related to the move I didn’t get to post about it. Instead of details there will be a series of photo posts on the trip.

    This time we went on a slightly smaller and older ship the Norwegian Dawn.  Our last cruise had been on Norwegian Getaway.  Both have their strengths and weaknesses. We had a inner lower room with no window, last time a balcony.  But given we had some rough seas going out, it was good there were no windows.  It wasn’t terrible and we just slept, watched a movie, and enjoyed the morning after the storm.

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  • Wednesday Wildcard -Cozumel

    In Cozumel Mike chose the Jeep excursion.  It was one where you drove a Jeep about the island in a tour to see ruins, a national park, spent time on the beach, and have lunch.  He was keen on driving but there were four to a jeep.  I cautioned that maybe, just maybe, he couldn’t drive the whole thing.  But we were paired with two lovely ladies, Mary Lou from Michigan and her sister (please forgive men 6 months later I can’t find my notes and the name escapes me), neither had an interest in driving.  So Mike gleefully drove the whole day!  There we enjoyed the sites, had a great lunch, I loved playing in the ocean, and even got me a nice wool blanket. It has the lighthouse of the national park pictured here on the design. The blanket was a must for Wisconsin winters as Mike had taken back the one he’d given me in college.

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  • Wednesday Wildcard – Roatan

    Another stop on our cruise was Roatan, Honduras.  Though there the natives were quick to disassociate themselves from Honduras on the mainland.  They really thought of themselves as different and separate.  Here we did an eco-tree walk in the rain forest canopy.  It was high suspended bridges where we could see both ground and treetops.  The leader of the walk was a local who was very knowledgeable bout flora, not only the botany of it but traditional and medicinal uses too.  It was very interesting, informative, and lovely.

     

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  • Wednesday Wildcard – Costa Maya

    With all that happened in my life, travel posts got shoved to the very back burner then put in the freezer until later.  One was our wonderful week long cruise to Central America.  So here are photos from our visit to Costa Maya.  A small port made to give cruises access to Mayan ruins in Mexico.  There’s nothing much in the town except the port.  Expect tourist prices and nothing else here but we did have a wonderful tour of some ruins with a guide that was a professor of Mayan art.  So enjoy a quick photo essay of that stop.

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  • This Is Where I Was and There Was No Internet

    Sometimes you just have to run away to the Caribbean and unplug from the world.   That is exactly what I did.  I floated around on a ship with my 2,999 shipmates.

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    Hollywood Beach Florida, Photo – mine
    Departing Port of Miami by me.
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    Yes the water is THAT blue - by me
    Yes the water is THAT blue – by me
    Sunset at sea by me
    Sunset at sea by me

    Spent several days at sea – wonderful except for the throat infection days where I saw the ship’s doctor and slept.  Did yacht racing in St. Maarten, took a tour of St. John, USVI and stayed on the boat for Nassau as I didn’t feel like snorkeling.   Loved having someone to cook and clean after me.  Could live there for that.  When I was feeling better I started writing again but the cruise was almost over by then.  **SIGH**

    Unfortunately, I had to return to reality and the world here didn’t stop.  So I’ve got a To-Do book instead of list.  Oh, and I still feel like I am on ship – land sickness.  I didn’t get sea sickness but I’ve got land sickness – prime demographic for it middle aged woman on sea over seven days.  Good news – it goes away over time.  Bad news – no treatment and can last months.  Good news – not sick feeling just slight almost pleasant rocking feeling.  Bad news – there are multiple documented cases of prime demographic that lasted years.

    Stay tuned more photo posts to come.  I’ve got three cameras of stuff to download and process.

    Until next time!