November 30, 2025

Happy Thanksgiving 2025! I have so much to be thankful for this year. I am truly living a dream and loving every minute of it! We were at Sea today traveling from Vanuatu to Fiji.

I got to talk to video chat with my whole family ! It was like speed dating, got about 2 minutes with each of them as the passed me around the house - loved it got to have fast conversations with them all to catch up on what is going on since I last saw or talked to them. So rare to get to do that all in one call and love What's App Video call for this magical free technology!! I think there was 43 of them at my brother Michael's house and you can see me on the video call on the phone in the back! I made the FAMILY PHOTO!!


Had Thanksgiving Dinner with my Ship Family, complete with pumpkin pie. Good buddy Jose took photo group clockwise starting with Jimbo and Anna (bottom left),  Bob and Sarah, Sherrie, Bosco, Me and Scott. 

By Pat Patrick July 14, 2026
I really enjoyed my first trip to Thailand! On our final morning here we went to try breakfast at this spot, down the road, we had been hearing rave reviews on, King Of Bread . The hype was correct, the breakfast was delicious and they had some unique choices. I had eggs benedict on a croissant, in lieu of the standard english muffin and Bosco had it on Milk Bread, which was equally tasty.
By Pat Patrick July 14, 2026
We love having authentic experiences with locals to really get a chance to see how they live and thrive in the Ports we visit. So when I found a cooking class, by a local woman offered in her home, we were excited to book. Um ( our teacher) picked us and brought us back to our hotel along with the family of 4 from Sydney, Australia, that had also signed up for this afternoon class. Um's house, which has a lovely open air kitchen, garden and dining area, was about a 30 minute drive and turned out to be on the beach, right next to the Grandparent Rocks.
By Pat Patrick July 14, 2026
The nightlife scene doesn't really get going till after 11pm and goes till 5 am in the Chaweng section of Koh Samui . We made our way over to the club district, and one of the hot spots called the ArkBar a little past 10pm to have some dinner, while watching the beach fire shows.