The Arcadia Theater is a busy room on Freedom of the Seas. Our happy group went there after dinner every night. Royal Caribbean International made sure to put a fitting exclamation point of a showroom on this big ship of theirs. To me, it looked like the nicely decorated joint holds around 1,000 people in…
With somewhere in the neighborhood of 5,000 folks on Freedom of the Seas, I had the notion that the ship would seem more crowded than any of the cruises I’ve taken with my dear wife Karen. Not so. Somehow, the space planners made this shop seem roomy, from the promenade lined with shops and restaurants…
My dear wife Karen and I have enjoyed many fantastic cruises together on a bunch of really nice ships. I believe the biggest we’ve been on were the two that took us to Bermuda, the very first I ever took, which left from New Jersey, and the second out of the Port of Baltimore. Different…
My dear wife Karen and I booked this vacation 15 months ago. That’s when our fearless vacation-on-the-seas leaders Brenda-and-JoAnn told the group that they’d like us all to go on the big ship out of Port Canaveral to Coco Kay, St. Thomas and St. Martin, and my dear wife Karen surprised me very pleasantly by…
Text pictures have been traded while my dear wife Karen is enjoying her annual Girls Getaway on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. From the south, a sunset during dinner. Gorgeous. Another night, another happy dinner. Equally beautiful. And I am grateful to receive these as I am typing blogs and comments and reading the…
Of course not every picture I took while hanging out with my dear wife Karen and Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle the pre-touring explosion week in and out of the Happy Cottage on Cape Cod fit right into my posts-of-the-moment. That’s what these ruminating recaps are built to encompass. And so I give you one…
It started with the desire to snap a picture of the pretty orange bushes. Click on any gallery photo for a description. Click and hold on the photo to the right for an enlarged slide show. So as our pre-tourist boom week in the Happy Cottage of Cape Cod wound to its close, we gently…
The second drive the mile down Depot Road to the Atlantic Ocean was not met with a shuttered establishment. The Tiki Bar was … Hold on there, enthusiastic sir! As my dear wife Karen and I practically skipped from the parking lot to the little open-air joint already packed with people on the Friday Happy…
While shopping for other things as our Cape Cod pre-tourist-rush June week in the Happy Cottage wound down, my dear wife Karen and I had to pull down one more newbie to sit next to the Dark Horse Cab Sav that I brought from home. So we threw it in with the bag of Blue…
My dear wife Karen and I kept the Sesuit Harbor Cafe in our hip pocket, an ace in the hole if you will on the Traditions List for our pre-tourist rush June week in the Happy Cottage. The setting on the Bay screams Cape Cod. Boats and beach and dunes and birds and sun. And…
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