The cruise ship docked in San Francisco, and we were able to collect our baggage and get back to the car by 10:30. I was so happy to be home in California! I was also happy to be home early, because Seanie and I were driving to Yosemite and the sooner I was home, the sooner we could leave on that adventure. But Mom, figuring that we had saved an ( Read more... )

It’s the final day of the cruise, and it’s a sea day. As we chug along the coast of Washington and Oregon, the nausea returns I’ve made my way up to the top deck. If I’m gonna feel icky anyway, I might as well go upstairs and stare blankly at the ocean instead of the wall of my cabin ( Read more... )

Victoria, British ColumbiaFor some reason, all cruise ships departing from the US have to drop anchor at an international port at least once per trip. (I’m sure there’s a very good reason, I just don’t know it.) Our foreign stop was in Canada, at Victoria. This is all I knew about Victoria as we departed the boat: Butchart Gardens, one of our ( Read more... )

So far, I’ve not had terribly good fortune on sea days. On the way up to Alaska, we went through a storm and I was sick the entire time. On the way back down to San Francisco ( Read more... )

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In which we get off the freakin’ boat and have an adventure


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Finally, we do something interesting ( Read more... )

See yesterday.

Actually, today wasn’t quite so bad. I still felt pretty seasick all morning, but the seas had calmed considerably by midday, so I was slowly beginning to feel human again. I ate something (a cookie). I showered. I watched The Hunger Games and Rise of the Guardians, both movies for the first time. (I quite liked Hunger Games, ( Read more... )

Y’know what? F*ck cruising. It’s the worst idea ever ( Read more... )