Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3
No We Haven’t Left Yet
We’re off again! This time staying in the Northern Hemisphere for a change. This is our itinerary:
Sooooo many nice things about this itinerary:
- It’s round trip from Boston. This means we can drive to Boston and park at the cruise port.
- No airplanes.
- No airports.
- No TSA lines
- No weight limit on our suitcases
- No real limit to the number of bags we can bring on board, though realistically, they still have to fit under the bed.
- No jet lag
- It looks like Halifax, Sydney, and Charlottetown are in the Atlantic time zone, which is one hour ahead. We will probably toggle back and forth an hour.
- We can visit family on the way up, visit more family on the way down.
- We can spend a little time in Boston. It’s been a while.
- The cruise itself should be rather relaxed.
- Unlike other itineraries where we seem to have a sense of urgency (“We *have* to see the David in Florence!!”, and we all know how THAT turned out), there’s no sense of urgency at all here. All places I’m interested in seeing, though, especially Quebec City.
- All of our excursions start no later than 10:00 a.m. (i.e. no crazy 5:30 a.m. alarms to hurry, scramble, get off the ship by 7:00).
- There are 3 individual days at sea. We’re super-not fans of days at sea, but one at a time is fine. Three sea days in a row? Nope, nope, and nope.
We board the ship on Sunday, September 8 and disembark on Thursday, September 19.
Everybody think happy thoughts for continued good late Summer weather!
Maryland Meshugas 