October 6, 2024
Press
This article by BBC is a good summary of where we have been and a lot of the colorful characters on the Ship.
There is a Twitter "X" video that I appear in from Monday - but I can't directly link you to it, so here is address if you want to watch. I'm shown packing up and a brief conversation with Sherie at about 1 minute 38 into 2 minute video. I tried to stay out of news frenzy.
https://x.com/utvnews/status/1840825187841032314?s=48&t=aDz4GnlQJ_erGC2nSaJL6w
Thursday, October 23rd we arrived in the Port of Bitung, Indonesia to huge fan fare despite the pouring rain. Turns out we were the first cruise ship to visit this Port in a long time!
WOW!!! PALAU is the tropical Paradise I have been dreaming about! This is trip just reached a new level of OMG!!
Got to love a place that sells shirts saying " Where the heck is Yap? " Colonia ( population 3,100 ) is the Capital and Harbor town of Yap State ( population 11,600 ) one of four states in the Federated States of Micronesia. We are in the Pacific Ocean or Philippine Sea just north of the equator, Papua New Guinea and Australia.