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Norwegian Escape

Norwegian Escape

Planning and research for Antarctica is still ongoing, and there's a lot that I still need to figure out, but with only 51 days till the annual Christmas vacation I'm switching over to that for a little while. This year's getaway is on the Norwegian Escape from December 17th to

Holiday Escape

This will be a mostly pictorial post, I'm not going to spend much time discussing this cruise. There were some fantastic parts to be sure and overall I really enjoyed this trip, however given the port intensive nature of it and the state of the world with omicon, there were

Christmas 2021

For the last several years I've been taking a solo trip for Christmas, the last one being a back to back trip on the NCL Breakaway out of Port Canaveral. Absolutely one of those trips that I thoroughly enjoyed in the moment but as the year went on I wished

Adventure of the Seas - Embarkation day

Adventure of the Seas - Embarkation day

Morning started a little rough, there may have been a few gin and tonics the evening before, so even though I called it a fairly early evening when I woke up I was a little under the weather. A nice shower and a bottle of water with some propel powder

Adventure of the Seas - It begins!

Adventure of the Seas - It begins!

Ahhh, nothing like writing your entire post an accidentally deleting it. Oh well, to start anew and make it a bit more concise! If you haven't seen it, the intro to this cruise is here [https://www.joshgates.org/adventure-of-the-seas-initial-plans/]. There are some changes to the schedule since then, we're