Arrecife, Canary Islands, Spain Nov 11 2011

arrived in Arrecife after spending yesterday in Grand Canary.. ship's internet service has been out and is in process of being repaired.. may be a few more days.. Casablanca we hope??

 UPDATE...  Internet connection went down to a sloooow crawl.. unable to continue this Blog onboard...taking a good part of 30 minutes to try to load pics...

'Scooter Races' at the Port in Arrecife

Day at Sea Nov 2

the start of 7 days at sea...crossing over to the Canary Islands... the 4 Amigos were invited to a private dinner in the Pinnacle Restaurant by Capt Henk and his  wife Cassie along with Chief Engineer Juul and his wife Jan.. a very nice dinner with some great friends who we know for a long time....  the best of the best...

ship's satellite internet connection HAd BEEN DOWN SINCE 11/2 THRU TODAY 11/16

St Martin... Nov 1

we'll be in St Martin at 7am today.. the last day before we head out for our journey across the Atlantic to our first stop..the Canary Islands

Tortola..Oct 31..Happy Halloween

arrived in Tortola, BVI this early beautiful morning..walked around Roadtown...  86*.. sunny and HEAT

day at sea ....Oct 30

a short detour at 5am this early morning for a med-evac passenger at Grand Turk island ... we were underway pretty quickly.. a beautiful sunny 82* day at sea..around noon some inconsiderate passenger decides to mount his HAM radio antenna right in front of me at the railing.. what a buffoon!!!!

day at sea...Oct 29

enroute to Tortola ... this is the retirement cruise for the W-T Hat a/k/a thee Well-Traveled Hat... at the end it will be taken out of service and replaced by the NEW W-T Hat...

Maasdam cruise roundtrip from Ft Lauderdale to Europe day one.. at sea Oct 28 2011

..start of our 45 day cruise  roundtrip from Ft lauderdale to  Europe..  we started our adventure with our friends Denise and Tom in our drive down to Ft Lauderdale in our packed to the brim rental van... we boarded our favorite Holland America ship, the Maasdam... met old friends onboard including Capt Henk Draper and his lovely wife Cassie... Juul and Jan Gehrman... and many members of the ships staff from previous cruises ...a perfect sailaway thru Port Everglades Inlet... set our course southeast bound toward our first port of call Tortola after 2 days at sea...we should arrive there early Monday morning