RamblingNana's Blog

Bye bye!!!
Sep 18, 2007 | 1:21 PM PST
Tags: travel , fly , plane

We're off!!!

Bye for now!  When you read this we will be high in the sky somewhere, flying toward Rome. 

We are off on our BIG adventure.  We wont be back for 36 days.  We are so excited.  We are going to places we have never been.  We will see Turkey, France, Spain, Italy, Greece, Portugal, Monaco, Croatia, Netherlands Antilles, Grand Turks and Caicos Islands, British Virgin Islands and the Bahamas.

Can you imagine how excited we are?!!  What an adventure it is going to be. 

We know we want to go somewhere and actually stay there for awhile and really visit the area.  This cruise will give us just a taste of what these faraway places are like and we will undoubtedly find a spot that we will want to return to one day and spend some time getting to know the area in detail.

We've taken quite a few cruises and we always enjoy them immensely.  One of our favourites is Alaska.  That is a marvellous cruise and we highly recommend it for you and your families. 

We did the Panama Canal in April this year. It was 19 days and we loved it.  It was over in the blink of an eye.

I learned so much on that trip.  Before I left I read "The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914" by David McCullough.  It is a fabulous book that was suggested to me as a "must read" and I encourage you to read it before you take this cruise, should you ever have the opportunity to go there.  It will truly enhance your adventure.  What a fascinating story of construction that was.  I had no idea what a saga it had been.

So bye for now.  Your gardens will all be tucked away for the Winter by the time we return.  My baskets will be all sad looking and messy.  My friend is staying here and because the baskets are still so lovely looking - well - I haven't the heart to take them down.  Hopefully she will remember to water them every so often ... though I know she's never watered a plant in her life!  ;-)

You'll recognize me when I return.  I'll be the little round lady who waddles off the ship.  Oh the FOOD!!!!  It's soooooo good!

Later!

RN