Yesterday, I had a very nice conversation with a fellow passenger who served 39 years in the Canadian Navy. His final rank was Commander....

Seabourn did a very good job yesterday with the Sommeliers Lunch. It was in the main dining room, and although we never eat dinner there...

And the days dwindle down to a precious few…….. Yesterday, one of my very close friends Ed Snyder passed away. He had been hospitalized...

To say that things are running amuck in the House of Representatives is a gross understatement. The Republicans threw Omar off the...

The big news from yesterday is that my team won trivial pursuit. Not one team knew where Venetian blinds were invented (Japan) and only...

What happened yesterday? The stock market turned around and ended up. My team was trounced in trivial pursuit. Barbara is pissed off...

Hockey superstar Bobby Hull died. He was one of the if not the greatest hockey players of all time. Hull had the most feared slap shot...

In the “it is better to be lucky than smart” department, yesterday we managed to get on the first tender so we could meet our great guide...

Our arrival at Easter Island continues to be pushed back. Now the first tender is not scheduled to leave the ship until 2 p.m. Part of...

I have an inquiry from a friend/reader inquiring if I know an attorney that can help with evicting somebody’s boat out of a boat rental...

I am learning a lot and thinking about things I never thought of while reading Volume 1 of Ian Toll’s trilogy about the war in the...

Random thoughts at sea sailing towards Easter island. These thoughts are in no particular order of importance, just items that crossed...

Yesterday was another nice sea day. Basically more of the same. Did watch two football games. Very surprised the Bengals beat the Bills,...

Sitting in Lima harbor unable to disembark due to ”political unrest”, it occurred to me that there could come a day when cruise lines...

I am finding myself thinking and actually saying on a regular basis, that I have made a reasonably decent living over many years because...

I haven’t written one of my old fashioned rants for a long time. One would think it is hard to get really pissed off sailing around the...

When in Ecuador, buy a Panamá Hat! We drove about an hour outside of Manta to one of a handful of top hat makers who do everything by...

We docked in Manta, Ecuador at noon. Had lunch on the ship and then went into Manta which has a beautiful beach and about 300,000...

Happy New Year to everyone. No accidents or other mishaps yesterday. With the arrival of four more, we are now at full strength as of...

Jamie Raskin, for whom I have the upmost respect, has been diagnosed with lymphoma. It s treatable and the prognosis is good. In the...

Kari Lake has to pay fees but not sanctions. That is not surprising because the Judge felt there was enough of a question of fact to go...

Spent almost the entire morning on my iPad making appointments for Barbara and me at a CVS two miles from our hotel so we could get our...