Well, here we go again, for a much anticipated 7 day Alaskan journey, followed by an 18 day trip to Hawaii and back to Vancouver. Gosh, it seems like we just got back into our normal routine from the world cruise. With so many projects planned and unplanned, we have been most busy all summer. Although one fire was fairly close to us, we did live with the horrible smoke for weeks from the rest of the fires in California. Knock on wood, all seems back to our usual pleasant almost-fall weather.
So we plan to fly to Seattle very early tomorrow morning, join the Eurodam, and be off for seven days in Alaska. Ports will include Juneau, Sitka, Ketchikan, Victoria, and scenic cruising in Glacier Bay. This, the glacier portion of the cruise.
Then we continue back to Vancouver, Victoria, with 5 days at sea heading towards Hawaii, and the volcano portion of the trip. Even though we will not be sailing near Kona and the lava fields, we think we will be close enough to claim the volcano part. The ports in Hawaii will include Hilo, Lahaina, Honolulu, and Lihue, Kauai. Then we will sail 5 days back to Vancouver where we fly home on October 17th.
This will be our second cruise on the Eurodam, which occurred last year around this same time. We lucked out to have great weather last year, so we keep our fingers crossed for the same.
We will miss the start of the fall colors here, but rest assured, the leaves will be waiting for us to clean up!
To be continued…..
Bill & Mary Ann
