Category: Florida

Flying from Fort Lauderdale to Calgary

November 24: It’s time to leave the warmth. The weather reports from home don’t make that a very happy thing to have to do, but I do miss my home and my fur-kids. We had a 12:35 Air Canada flight to Toronto and then on to Calgary for the...
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Cruising the New River, Fort Lauderdale

November 23: The plan for today was to go on a boat tour of the historic New River in Fort Lauderdale and then to just enjoy the beach. Watching the cruise ships come in while enjoying a coffee our balcony is a nice way to start the day. This...
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Exploring beyond Fort Lauderdale

November 22: The weather this morning wasn’t great – certainly not conducive to laying on the beach 🙂 This was the view from the balcony at 08:40 am. This would be a good day to drive up to West Palm Beach to see Cathy’s aunt Marilyn. It was a...
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Exploring Alligator Alley, Florida

November 21: Today was exploring day, and Hertz came to pick us up at 10:00 (yes, we got off to a slow start again 🙂 ). We both really wanted to see alligators in the wild, and the hotel concierge had a printed card with directions to the highway...
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Off the Carnival Destiny and onto the beach

When I began writing this, it was 05:30 am on the 21st, and I had just watched Holland America’s new ship Nieuw Amsterdam sail into the channel leading to Port Everglades. I went back to bed, though – it’s now 07:10 and I’m watching the sun come up over...
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On board the Carnival Destiny

November 15: Today we began the next stage of our adventure, boarding the Carnival Destiny in Miami. I chose this cruise for business reasons. There are a lot of different opinions about Carnival, and since they’re often very cheap, I need to know what a cruise with Carnival is...
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On the fast track in Miami

November 14: Cathy and I went our separate ways today – her to go shopping at Sawgrass, me to go very, very fast in a race car at Homestead-Miami Speedway. What a nice view to enjoy our morning coffee in front of 🙂 We got off to a very...
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Off the Noordam, starting our Miami exploration

November 13: Today was disembarkation day at Port Everglades, Fort Lauderdale, and on to the next stage of our adventure. I spent a while this morning getting a few more photos of the Noordam. The hallway outside our cabin – our door is the 2nd on the left, close...
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Sailing into the Caribbean on the Noordam

As I write this at 06:40, 25 minutes past sunrise, we’ve just passed Anguilla and are approaching Sint Maarten. These 2 islands are the first land we’ve seen since leaving Fort Lauderdale, which is now 1167 miles behind us. The weather has been poor, with winds averaging 30-35 knots...
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Flying from snow to warm sand

On Monday morning we flew out of Whitehorse, and we’re now on board Holland America’s Noordam at Port Everglades, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Three flights totalling 9 hours got us to a very different world. Here’s how it went… November 1: We took off at 11:10 am – this is...
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