Don & Melissa's Travelholics Blog

Welcome to Day 6, our fifth consecutive sea day.  It is still raining.  That is still no problem.  Plenty of things to do. Now, we generally take a casual approach, hanging out and meeting...

As predicted, Melissa and I slept in today.  When I say slept in, I mean, REALLY slept in.  We woke up at 11:30 AM (which is 8:30 AM Apollo Beach time).  It was still...

Day 4 started with more rain.  No pickle ball.  No outside activities.  No problem.  Just more time to make new friends. Don’t judge us, but we slept until 11 am (really 9 am, but...

What can we say about Day 3, our second full sea day?  Well, to start, the clocks sprung forward an hour.  Then it rained nearly all day.  No pickle ball.  No outside activities.  No...

Our first full sea day started with our introduction to pickleball.  The sports director, Dario, is a tennis pro who just learned pickleball himself.  The Introduction to Pickleball activity was packed.  40 people on...

Our travel blog is not reachable via the ship’s Wifi.  So, we will be updating only when we are in port. However, there will be a separate entry for each day on the cruise....

We have learned not to take chances when it comes to getting to the port on time. We have had the 4 hour drive to Miami take as long as 14 hours. So we...

We are less than 7 days away from leaving Port Everglades on our transatlantic cruise and our preparations are on schedule.  Back in December, we realized that there wasn’t a Facebook group for this...