December 1, 2024
What I am Thankful for this Thanksgiving !
I have a very blessed life, and I thank God every day for the treasured gifts of a great family, wonderful friends and this year the blessing of the Odyssey in my life. Below is a great group that adopted me and have also been so generous and inviting to Cathy & Rod while visiting. On Thanksgiving morning, we woke to these great rainbow shots of our Ship coming into the port of St Maartin's! Don't need a sign better than that to say I am in the right place for me, right now! Hope you are all able to count your blessings today!
Monday April 6th is another travel day for us on our destination to remote Raja Ampat . We started the day at 5am to make our 7am flight from Denpasar, Bali to Sultan Hasanuddin Airport in South Sulawesi for our brief layover to connect with our flight onto Sorong, Indonesia.
Easter turned out to be a travel day for Bosco and I as we were extremely limited in when we could be seen by the Australian Border Control to disembark from the Ship, for a scuba diving adventure in Raja Ampat that I have had reserved, for over 18 months! We flew from Perth to Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia on Easter afternoon.
I have been really excited to get to Fremantle / Perth for my first time. I have had a few friends live here over the years and I have a second cousin, James Murphy, who I have only ever spoken too briefly, over the last 35 years and that I would love to meet in person. Jim is the older brother of Paul who I met up with in Melbourne a few weeks ago.