Island Hopping I’m catching up about 12 days of our trip with this final chapter. Although I had a lot of time aboard the ship, I always found something better to do than writing updates on my blog. I’m writing most of this at our…

All Aboard We weren’t always cruising people. For a few decades, we enjoyed planning our own trips, months and years in advance and then travelling to places on our own agenda. Trips to Australia and Italy last year were both self-planned and we loved both…

Sun in the South Seas When we booked our flights to Tahiti some time last year, we knew that we would be connecting through the San Francisco airport. We had memories of this kind of connection through San Francisco when we went to Australia in…

Back to the Beginning While I’ve been writing this travel blog for over 20 years, it wasn’t always the case, and in the early days, it was quite different. I remember in the old days, I used to have to run around trying to find…

Now that I’m back home from Germany and things are returning to normal again, I’ve got some time to get a choice selection of Barb’s Tahiti pictures up on the blog. You can see the pictures here. Baden

It looks like Barb’s gotten past the issue of $20/ hr Internet access as I received this recent update last night. However I’m cringing at what the bill will be for all of the disposable cameras that Barb’s had to buy due to the malfunctioning…

I received Barb’s second update from her Tahiti Adventure. Sounds like things are going well but bad news about the camera. Baden We’ve now moved on to Moorea and are staying at the Intercontinental Moorea hotel. We have a nice room right over the water…

I received an email from Barb just now with several pictures such as the one above. I guess her notes on getting the digital camera connected worked out after all. 😉 What Barb is referring to about the keyboard is that she is likely using…

Tahiti Bound It’s 5:30 AM as I write this and I got back from the airport about 30 minutes ago to drop Barb and her mother Ruth as today they will both be beginning their Excellent Tahiti Adventure. I’m not exactly sure if Barb will…