In the last post I blogged about our onboard adventures on our Westbound crossing from London, aboard Princess Cruise Line’s Sky Princess, November 2025. This post will focus on some of our port stops along the way. OK, let’s get…
Day tour to the Andes Mountains
Our first full day of touring in Mendoza was an excursion to the beautiful Andes Mountains, which we had previously arranged with Leo, owner of Vendimia Wine Tours. This is our third trip to Mendoza and we have used Leo’s…
Blast from the past – the Westin and Coco Palms Kauai revisted!
This morning we were scheduled to take a 10am helicopter tour over Kauai. We left our hotel, the Grand Hyatt Poipu, at 8:30am to meet our arranged pre-board/checkin time of 9:15am. As it turned out, traffic was light and we…
Way-cation in San Juan part 1
For this and the next post, both of the Steve’s will be co-writing our weekend experience in San Juan. I’m trying to get Steve (DOS) to write more of the blog, and too my surprise he was already writing some…
Happy Valentine’s Day from Jekyll Island!
I’m writing this from the balcony of our room at Jekyll Island, watching the croquet players in their dress whites play on the ground in front of me. It’s a beautiful afternoon here, and we’ve just come back from walking…