At dinner time on Freedom of the Seas, mostly I ate

Our scheduled dinner time on the Freedom of the Seas was 5:30 p.m. We got there on time. We ate our table. Mostly, we enjoyed our appetizers, entrees and desserts. Yes, sometimes plural on the same night. Every night, we had the choice of eating either a buffet at the Windjammer Cafe or extra-charge meal…

A mix of the high and tight in St. Thomas

For our excursion in St. Thomas, my dear wife Karen and I decided upon a cable ride up the mountain that would land us on the highest spot on the island. It sounded in the brochure on the The Freedom of the Seas as if it would offer an exciting vista. Our friend Joe was…

Dance, dance, dance on Freedom of the Seas

I’ve been known to break out into the happy dance. You’d think I’d be a natural on Freedom of the Seas, where dancing is a big part of their regularly scheduled programming. My dear wife Karen found that out again, and again, and again. And as it turned out, I’m not so much a mover…

Guest Post: Not today. Paul Curran died

There’s no Sunday guest column from Paul Curran this week. He died. Warning. Several glasses of wine have gone from hand to mouth in the production of this blog post. We don’t know why our friend Paul Curran passed away. I found out that the man who lived im Ottawa, Canada, the writer who graced…