Glen & Kathy Cruise the World: 2022

Our latest adventure - around the world in 128 days begins January 3, 2023

We enjoyed our first world cruise in 2019 so much that we decided to do another one. While on the 2019 cruise we booked the world cruise scheduled for 2021. Because of Covid-19, that itinerary was moved to 2022. Early in 2021,they released the itinerary for 2023 which we also liked and we did not think that the 2022 cruise would be sailing so we booked the 2023. We kept the 2022 booking thinking it would be cancelled and we would get additional credit. They ended up moving the 2022 itinerary to 2024. We are are still deciding if we will also do that cruise (it goes up the Amazon, Hawaii, Japan, China , India, Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean) but we waiting to see what the 2025 itinerary will be.

Though most of Africa has not been on our bucket lists, we have wanted to at least set foot on our 6th continent. After a couple of stops in the Caribbean, we pass through the Panama Canal and sail towards the South Pacific Islands. We will visit some new places as well as ones that we visited in 2019 and a trip to Australia in 1990. We are excited to get back to New Zealand and Australia and this time we will visit the south side of Australia, including Tasmania, and on to Perth on the West Coast. Then we sail across the Indian Ocean to Africa. There we are scheduled to visit 18 ports in 13 countries. After sailing up the west coast of Africa, we do a quick dip into the Mediterranean then on to a number of counties in Europe. We enjoy these very much. We have been to most of them before but we will have first time stops in ports in Spain, Portugal, France, England, Scotland and Norway.

This map and a detailed itinerary can be displayed using menu options on the right side of of the screen on PCs and tablets or a drop down menu under title on smartphones.

Our ship, the Zuiderdam is one of four Vista class ships in the Holland America Line. These ships are named (in Dutch) after the 4 points of the compass - Noordam (north), Zuiderdam (south), Oosterdam (east) and Westerdam (west)

Kathy and Glen are about to head out on another big adventure - January 3, 2023. Come back then.

End of 2022 Voyage of the Vikings

Day 36 - back to Boston

Saturday was the last day of our cruise. We arrived back in Boston about 6:30AM

only a bit of a sunrise

some of the early morning coffee group on the back deak

Boston skyline before sunup

a plane taking off from Logan International Airport

a plane landing right over us

looking down centerline of a runway

Boston skyline

we approach the cruise terminal

a Princess ship followed us in

Crates unloaded from ship

then forklift takes basket into terminal

supplies waiting to be loaded for next cruise

Day 35 - At sea

Wednesday was another sea day. Itr was foggy so we had no sunrise. We had a bit of excitement mid afternoon as there was a medical emergency and a person was evacuated by helicopter. We had a pretty sunrise,

foggy morning so no sunrise

mid afternoon, patient was lifted off the front bow

calm waters

the start of sunset

a full moon

luggage out by midnight for pickup

Day 34 - Halifax, Nova Scotia

Our final port on this cruise was Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Once we docked, Kathy and I walked along the boardwalk along the harbor. After lunch I went on an excursion called "Peggy's Cove Preservation Area Hike". Kathy had been to Peggy's Cove before so she stayed in town and did some shopping. After I got back we went and had a late lunch. In the evening I checked out a couple to bars to try local beer. We did not leave until after 11 PM.