After two great days on the Big Island of Hawaii, our next port of call brought a complete change of pace and scenery, as we docked in...

Greetings, blogistas. When we left off on part one of our day in Kailua-Kona I was sampling coffee that would cost about $50 a pound if...

What a day. Today we were on the opposite side of the Big Island from Hilo, in the popular tourist town of Kailua-Kona, and we made the...

Land ho! Five sea days after leaving Los Angeles, we arrived today at Hilo, our first port of call in Hawaii. It was overcast and raining...

Two months and a day after we left Miami, Michele and I were back in the USA, and we made good use of our time back home, if being three...

Ensenada, Mexico, is the northernmost city in what is unofficially known as the Mexican Riviera, and it was the last port of call on the...

Culture shock. Those were the first words that formed in my head when I set foot on the pier of this tourist town at the southern tip of...

Our second and final stop in Central America landed us in Puerto Quetzal, Guatemala, the nation’s most important seaport. We didn’t spend...

South America is now in our rear view mirror (do ships have rear view mirrors?), and today we made the first of two ports of call in...

Today marked our third and final day in Peru, and we certainly made the most of it. From ancient Inca ruins to a high tech laser light...

Today was supposed to be the day we visited Machu Picchu, the crown jewel of the Incan Empire. However, a protest and strike by locals...

Greetings from the Serenade of the Seas, where I’m back on board after an amazing three day, two night adventure in the Peruvian Andes....

Buenas noches from Arica, Chile’s northernmost city, lying only eleven miles from the Peruvian border. I had an amazing day here, but...

Today marked our second port stop in Chile, with visits to two neighboring cities that share a section of Pacific coastline in north...

Today brought our first port of call since that incredible day in the Chilean fjord, and it couldn’t have been more different. Instead of...

Sometimes the”B” in Plan B stands for “Better,” and I think that was probably the case today. As I said yesterday, our itinerary called...

Welcome back. When we last left off, the Serenade of the Seas had cast off as scheduled from Ushuaia at 2:00 pm, headed west on the...

Greetings once again from Fin del Mundo, the end of the world. Today was our second day in Ushuaia, and this time we really did travel to...

Greetings from the bottom of the world, or at least the inhabited part of it. Yesterday we rounded Cape Horn, crossing from the Atlantic...

Our final day in Antarctic waters was highlighted by a visit to an isolated, uninhabited, snow and glacier covered rock known as Elephant...