Friday, April 8, 2016

Travel Blogging I

Dateline: Thursday in Honolulu. This city is growing like a weed, there are dozens of modern skyscrapers and at least five construction cranes visible from the ship's observation (top) deck. With the verdant green trees lining many avenues, it bids fair to be a competitor to Singapore, and that's really saying something.

We caught a cab today and zipped over to a Safeway to stock up on soft drinks. You can bring your own soft drinks on board, but not your own booze. The cabby waited for us and took us straight back to the ship. 

Being in Honolulu is nice, but we have no agendas here as we've visited HI many times. The ship sailed in around 10 a.m. and will be here until 5 p.m. tomorrow. 

Cruise ships rarely overnight in-port, many cruises have none and spend every evening at sea. I gather we are scheduled to do a second overnight somewhere in French Polynesia. It is the sort of things a month-long cruise can do.

Hawaii is warm (of course) but not terribly sunny. Yesterday we cruised under overcast skies all day and today has been cloudy here, and the trade winds are blowing. We'll see what tomorrow brings, weatherwise.