Staggering, breathtaking, awe inspiring, unimaginably beautiful. Those words all apply, but don’t begin to describe the majesty of...

Greetings from the Drake Passage, the channel of ocean that separates South America from Antarctica, where we are currently experiencing...

Hard as it is to believe, we’ve now been living on our floating home away from home for a full month, and, no pun intended, it’s been...

Wow, lots to tell you today, particularly since this was the first time Michele and I split up and took separate tours to see different...

Greetings from the south Atlantic. Today is the second of two consecutive sea days as we work our way toward Antarctica, with a couple...

If yesterday was all about Buenos Aires, today was about getting out of the city and having a completely different experience. And after...

If you read yesterday’s blog post, you know that we spent last night sailing around in circles after we left Montevideo so that we...

Let me get this out of the way right up front—Uruguay took me by surprise, and completely blew me away. This charming little country,...

Happy New Year! I hope you enjoyed your celebration, wherever you are, as much as we did in Rio de Janeiro. For me at least, Brazil was...

Well, after a day like we had visiting Christ the Redeemer, we kind of looked at each other and said, “how do you ever top that?” The...

Where to begin? When something is hyped as much as Rio is, with Christ the Redeemer overlooking the city and Sugarloaf Mountain guarding...

Today was the second of two sea days as we make our way south down the coast of Brazil, with our big New Year’s Eve visit to Rio de...

Another sunny, warm and humid day today as we visited our second port of call in Brazil, the city of Recife. It was an early start to the...

I hadn’t planned to post anything today as we rounded the eastern tip of Brazil on our way to Recife, but there was enough of interest to...

Today was a day I’ve had marked on my calendar for a long time—my first time ever setting foot on the mainland of South America, and in...

Welcome back, faithful readers. Since leaving Devil’s Island without actually setting foot on the accursed former French penal colony,...

I’ve had today circled on my calendar for months, though our destination was only three uninhabited specks of land ten miles from the...

Any discussion of the island nation of Grenada really needs to start with geography. Yesterday I spent some time writing about how hilly...

If it’s Wednesday, this must be Barbados, a densely populated island nation bordered on the west by the Caribbean Sea and on the east by...

It doesn’t take long to realize that Bonaire, the third of the Dutch ABC islands, is different from Aruba and Curaçao. Kralendijk, the...