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Where Is Safarigal?

DAY 5 – January 9th

  Brian has taken to working out in the gym every morning. I am not in favor of working up a sweat, and enjoy the extra time in bed. The gym is quite small, but he has always been able to find an elliptical trainer. There is an area of the Chart Room reserved...

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DAY 4 – January 8th

  The ocean is still very calm, there have been a couple of pitches and rolls here or there to let you know you are on a ship, but nothing exciting at all. I decided that I have had enough education for a while, and even though the talks looked interesting, I...

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DAY 3 – January 7th

  At Sea We went to the 3 morning lectures, then to lunch in the dining room. Next I went to another beading class in Hemispheres. I ended up having to buy a beading mat because my beads kept on ending up on the floor, plus I somehow lost my needle. I could...

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Day 2 – January 6th

We slept with the curtains open, so I awoke to see the sea outside. The best view ever. Now a bit about our accommodations. We are currently in an ocean view cabin on deck 1. I can highly recommend this cabin. It is very convenient for most things on the ship....

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WE ARE ON BOARD!!!!!

Day 1 January 5th We had ordered our taxi for 11:30, and sure enough he was there and we loaded up all of the stuff into his van and headed to Ocean Terminal, getting there at 11:45. We filled out the health forms and went up the escalator. We were given purple...

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Southampton

We left home on a snowy Monday morning. Our neighbors gave us a lift to the airport so off we set with the 5 suitcases, 2 roller boards, one backpack containing camera equipment, and my large handbag in the back of their truck, plus 3 bags of garbage that we...

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Itinerary

Date Port Thursday, January 5 London (Southampton), England Friday, January 6 At Sea Saturday, January 7 At Sea Sunday, January 8 At Sea Monday, January 9 At Sea Tuesday, January 10 At Sea Wednesday, January 11 At Sea Thursday, January 12 Hamilton, Bermuda Friday,...

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The Implementation

So it is now 2 days before we fly to London. I am getting quite anxious that there is something major we have forgotten to do. However, this is the boring, but practical part: We have found a very nice man who will stop by and check on the house every week. In the...

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The Preparation

  It started as a very normal 30 day cruise. No worries there – we felt we could ask our very wonderful neighbors to pick up our mail, and clear our driveway from the inevitable snow. Now it’s going to be 91 days; that changes everything. I started reading world...

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The Inspiration

 A long time ago in a land far away In 1962 my parents took the year off from work so we could travel around the world. This was not a world cruise but a series of adventures on planes, trains, automobiles, busses, cable cars, and boats. After our plane ran off the...

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Prologue

  With enough effort you can justify anything. When retirement was looking like a possibility, and not just something to dream about in the distant future, I knew exactly what I wanted to do. We would go on a world cruise on Queen Mary 2. Every year when her...

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