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USA | Friday, 6 Dec 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [58]
EVEN FOUR DECKS UP, SPRAY FROM the bow streamed down our balcony windows. Oosterdam had been fighting gale-force winds and three-meter waves since we sailed back into the Pacific. Everyone was weaving like winos on a Friday night and the west wind ... Read more >
CHILE | Wednesday, 4 Dec 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [19]
IN A PERFECT WORLD WE WOULD stick around this part of Patagonia for a week or so—I would also be twenty years younger. Puerto Varas on Lago Llanquihue is the adventure center for hiking, birding and fishing but to get here you first have to go ... Read more >
CHILE | Sunday, 1 Dec 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [30]
PUERTO COQUIMBO LOOKED BETTER at dawn with its signature stick-figure concrete cross lighted than when we went ashore later Saturday morning. And in morning’s light we could see some of the wrecks that littered the harbor—another reason to ... Read more >
CHILE | Sunday, 1 Dec 2024 | By vagabonds3 | Photo Gallery
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PERU | Wednesday, 27 Nov 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [36]
CALLAO IS A PORT FOR CARGO SHIPS and Oosterdam stood out like an evening gown at Walmart. We docked around 2 PM Sunday and would be in port until Tuesday evening, just time enough for the well-heeled to take the Holland America excursion to Machu Picchu ... Read more >
PERU | Wednesday, 27 Nov 2024 | By vagabonds3 | Photo Gallery
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ECUADOR | Tuesday, 26 Nov 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [43]
THERE’S NOTHING LIKE WAKENING to the smell of fish—and I don’t mean kippers! We are in Manta, the largest port in Ecuador, also the Tuna Capital of South America. There is no special pier for cruise ships so we are moored among the ... Read more >
USA | Wednesday, 20 Nov 2024 | By vagabonds3 | Photo Gallery
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PANAMA | Monday, 18 Nov 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [73]
THE PANAMA CANAL IS AN ENGINEERING MARVEL with a touch of political chicanery and a soupçon of colonialism thrown in for flavor. It was prohibitively expensive to build at the beginning of the Twentieth Century, both in dollars and lives lost ... Read more >
COLOMBIA | Sunday, 17 Nov 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [58]
WE SECURED THE COVER ON OUR CAR, checked-out of the AirBnB and Uber-ed to Port Everglades. Boarding was smooth and efficient—we had already done the gruntwork online—and we were onboard in time for lunch. As cruise ships go, Oosterdam is ... Read more >
