This long-overdue post covers the final excursions we took on our aborted Viking World Wonders cruise that ended in Bali. Yes, this post is stale, but when we arrived back in the states on March 10th we were in no mood to write (or even read) blogs for a while. With the world turned topsy-turvy our motivation went down the […]
Cruise days 63,64 – Mar 8,9 In case you missed our previous post, by the time you read this we’re settled back into Betsy, back to reality and our “normal” life in Tucson, AZ. Our final port stop at Bali, Indonesia – Our problems disembarking the ship due to the Coronavirus hysteria heightened as we approached Bali. This was a […]
Cruise day 61 – Mar 5 By the time you read this we’ve returned to Arizona cutting short our World Wonders Cruise. It basically fell apart as far as the destinations we wanted to see – although Viking Sun is continuing with no planned itinerary. The World Health Organization has just declared Covid 19 a global pandemic and President Trump […]
Cruise day 58 – Mar 2 After another day at sea we were thrilled to get a first glimpse of the beautiful green mountainous islands of Indonesia. It’s exciting to enter a country that you’ve only seen in magazines or brochures previously, and so it was as our ship set anchor in the shallow bay facing Komodo Island. Not much […]
Cruise days 55,56 – Feb 28,29 For our final Australian stop we arrived at Darwin’s port around 2:00pm for an overnight stay, scheduled to leave the next day at 1:30pm. The rain was predicted at 100% upon our arrival, but we only got sprinkles as opposed to the recent huge downpours. We’ve faced the fact that it’s wet season in […]
We (Steve and Mona Liza) retired early at the beginning of 2012, sold our house and almost all of our belongings and moved into our RV. We are pursuing our dream of traveling the U.S. and Canada for several years and seeing everything and everyplace we can.
