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Welcome to my travel journal featuring people, places, and food. I write to remember and to share my vacation experiences.
My hope is that my travel opportunities will encourage you to make wonderful travel memories of your own.
There are two ways to find a trip: Links at top of the page or under the Categories menu. Note that there may be more than one trip under certain categories.
Note: All of the posts for each trip are in reverse chronological order.
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
Our HAL tour today was not until 11:00 so we slept late and had a very late breakfast in the Lido. I missed the sail-in to Puerto Vallarta and was greeted by a familiar sign when I did go out on the balcony. I was really looking forward to today’s HAL tour: All-Inclusive Sea Lion…
Keep readingManzanillo, Mexico
So, Chuck’s back had been hurting for a couple of days. When we reviewed our upcoming HAL tour for Manzanillo, we decided we needed to cancel it for him. If you are going to cancel a HAL tour and you want your money back, you must do it 72 hours prior to the docking time…
Keep readingPuerto Chiapas, Mexico
I have never seen the vaping warning on any previous cruise that had Mexico on its itinerary, so I assumed that this was a new rule. The ship was taking it seriously as the Cruise Director made several announcements about it. Puerto Chiapas is a very small port, and I heard that it was a…
Keep readingPuerto Quetzal, Guatemala
For this port, I hadn’t seen any HAL tour that I particularly wanted to take. I also watched the Travel Director’s informational talk about this port and realized that I didn’t see anything I wanted to do independently either. We just decided to go to the port village and visit the iguana habitat that I…
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