We are driving home today. It takes 16 hours or so.
This will be more fun, a brief video sharing some of the beautiful things you will see in Bermuda:
More tomorrow.
adventures
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Jun 14
Back in the US
We are back, having made landfall in New Jersey this morning.
After a week unplugged I had 201 emails, 15 percent of which required my attention. Why did I receive the rest of them?
Pizza at Colony with friends tonight. I must have eaten a pie by myself. (Which is great because careful food choices on the ship, 17 miles on a stationary bike, 14 miles running and a half-mile swimming meant I didn’t gain any weight during the cruise.)
We caught up on the last two episodes of Game of Thrones. (SPOILER: Can you believe that one that that one character did!?!?!) I watched a few other things and read email and tried to catch up on news. I’ll be close to up to speed tomorrow, I’m sure.
We’ll be on the road home. Some trip we’ve had, huh?
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Jun 14
The people that keep us fed
Ran 10K this morning. Spent most of the rest of the day reading and relaxing at sea. Those are two great sentences.
Our cruise is winding down. (A sad sentence, indeed.) I would be remiss without mentioning our waiter and assistant waiter.
Peggie is from Nicaragua:
Alvaro is from Peru:
No request was too strange, no favor done with sarcasm or exasperation.
Wednesday night I asked Alvaro if he could find some sour cream. “This is stupid, but just ask and if it requires any more searching than that, don’t think another thing of it.”
A few minutes later he brought back a great big dish of the stuff. We stored it in our stateroom’s mini-fridge and applied it to light sunburns. It really works. Tell everybody. I told Alvaro the next night and he was surprised.
And then we all went out for baked potatoes.
OK, that very last part isn’t true, but this part is: when you cruise with Celebrity, you get great service.
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Jun 14
Seeing Bermuda
Today we rented scooters:
And we explored some other parts of Bermuda we haven’t seen before. We didn’t linger in the towns, because towns are towns. But we did meet a local who lived in Lagrange, Georgia for a year and visited Auburn to play golf. (We’ve also had a War Eagle moment at a beach, when the mother of an Auburn student stopped by. Also, we taught the guy fetching cabs about dragging out that long r in “Warrrrrrr,” too.)
Anyway, amid the rocks and between the waves:
We found a new favorite beach, quiet and empty. So my lovely wife wrote her name down. Funny how you find yourself in one of those places you’d like to stay, for some time, really, and you like it so much that you want to note your presence, but you’re left with doing it in the most ephemeral medium possible.
More island scenes:
Funny how, when you got off the main road and through the one big intersection we negotiated, we were in a perfectly peaceful tropical paradise. We were having such a fine time of it that we got turned around and these guys had to put us back on track.
We made it back to the ship just in time for the departure.
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Jun 14
Another day at the beach
A perfect hot, sunny day. If you get your sunblock right it can’t be beat. I got a little pink yesterday, but today I lathered up more, sat in the shade, read, listened to the waves, snorkeled … it was the complete day at the beach. Here are a few views from the sand:
The sun setting over King’s Wharf, from the veranda of our stateroom:
A lovely day.
