Skipped Port

Well, today was another tender port that didn’t happen. The sea looked deceptively calm, unless you went down to one of the lower decks to realize that, just because you didn’t see white caps didn’t mean that the was exactly calm. The positive side of traveling on a smaller ship is the ability to visit smaller ports and less traveled locations. The downside is that most of these locations are accessed by tender rather than having the ship dock. As a result, with a very conservative captain, any sea more than about a meter of swell becomes a potential cancellation.

This would have been Cap-aux-Meules, Iles de la Madeleine. Ah, well. We sat in the bay for several hours looking at the shore which was so near, yet so far.

Did I share a cabin picture?  No?

 

 

About Holly

fiber person - knitter, spinner, weaver who spent 33 years being a military officer to fund the above. And home. And family. Sewing and quilting projects are also in the stash. After living again in Heidelberg after retiring (finally) from the U.S. Army May 2011, we moved to the US ~ Dec 2015. Something about being over 65 and access to health care. It also might have had to do with finding a buyer for our house. Allegedly this will provide me a home base in the same country as our four adult children, all of whom I adore, so that I can drive them totally insane. Considerations of time to knit down the stash…(right, and if you believe that…) and spin and .... There is now actually enough time to do a bit of consulting, editing. Even more amazing - we have only one household again. As long as everyone understands that I still, 40 years into our marriage, don't do kitchens or bathrooms. For that matter, not being a golden retriever, I don't do slippers or newspapers either. I don’t miss either the military or full-time clinical practice. Limiting my public health/travel med/consulting and lecturing to “when I feel like it” has let me happily spend my pension cruising, stash enhancing (oops), arguing with the DH about where we are going to travel next and book buying. Life is good!
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