Paul is well into his two months of summer workshops. Even though he is retired from classroom teaching, Paul still works with AP chemistry teachers at week-long summer workshops around the state and even in Indianapolis. These teachers are great and are usually a mix of veteran and new teachers. This is a wonderful, but…

Ron and I are back home at the Oakridge Mobile Home Park and it is great to see all of our friends and neighbors as well as our home. Our luggage made it home safely with no losses or breakages. A few days after we arrived home was Father’s Day. We were in charge of…

This is it.  The final stop.  Tomorrow we debark the ship and, after visiting family in Seattle, we fly home! Vancouver is a very busy and beautiful city.  We docked at Canada Place which is the  main cruise ship terminal serving as the origination point for most Alaskan cruises. Since we had visited here before there was no excursion…

Welcome to Canada!   This morning we headed to Victoria, B.C. on Vancouver Island and arrived about 10:00 am.  On the way we saw huge fog banks hugging the coastline with the Olympic Mountains in the background.  The lighthouse was a great picture through the fog.  However when we arrived at Victoria terminal there was no fog and the…

It’s hard to believe that this is our first US port in 127 days.  We’ve used WIFI almost exclusively on this trip but now, for one day, we turned on everything to Verizon and updated the apps on all of our devices.  We’ll have to go back to WIFI once we leave San Francisco for the last…

Today we arrived in the resort city of Cabo San Lucas located at the tip of Baja California on the Sea of Cortés.  It’s one of Mexico’s top five tourist spots.  The coastlines are filled with hotels and timeshare condos.  It’s a great place for boating, diving, deep sea fishing, parasailing, and just laying around on the beach…

Today was a late arrival so we didn’t arrive in Huatulco until 2:00pm.  However we’re not leaving until 10:30pm.   Huatulco is a small tourist town but very beautiful.  We were able to walk into town from the ship in just a couple of minutes.  It was crowded today as a fishing contest had just started with a cash…

As with Corinto, we arrived around 7:00 am.  We had been here in 2017 and visited the Mayan city of Tikal.   As with most port towns there’s usually not a lot to do or see.  So we took an excursion to the city of Antigua. Antigua is an old city in the central highlands of Guatemala.  It sits between…

We arrived in Corinto around 7:00 am and were greeted by a band and some of the local children who performed several dances for us.  Very entertaining.  The band stayed around most of the day. We had visited Corinto in 2017 and decided to make it an easy day.  So today’s excursion was a visit to the Flor…

Here we are again in the Panama Canal.  We went into the canal around 7:00 am and we’ll leave on the Pacific side around 5:00pm.  Weather today is hot, muggy, and a chance of thunderstorms. Nothing more to say than what we’ve blogged about before.  One item we haven’t mentioned are the white panels along the canal, usually…