The Spanish controlled Puerto Rico (Spanish for Rich Port) for over 400 years. They spent 250 of those years constructing forts to protect the city of San Juan. The Spanish maintained control of the city until the United States took it over in the Spanish-American war in 1898. These…
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Good Morning! Today is the second sea day of the cruise.
From the looks of that screen I may not have totally missed the sunrise. I’m going to head upstairs and check it out from the Serenity deck.
This is the water park area with nobody in it.
By the roller coaster…
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Good Morning! Today is the first of three sea days this cruise.
They have a lot of information on the room TVs.
Here is today’s schedule of events.
I normally sanitize my room as soon as I get in it. My Clorox wipes were in my suitcase yesterday which I didn’t…
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After the muster drill I wanted to head up to deck 16 lido for Shaq’s Big Chicken. There is too much food on this ship to try to eat everything. My strategy is to try to eat things I can’t get on other ships.
Carnival has gone away from the…
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Good morning. I was able to get a few more hours of sleep after the scrubbed Space-X launch. My port shuttle leaves in three hours.
Leftover spaghetti–The breakfast of campione.
We are in the hotel lobby waiting for the Radisson Resort shuttle to the port. The hotel charged $6 per person…
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Today I am traveling to Orlando and checking into the Radisson Resort at the Port. They have a shuttle you can sign up for that will take you to the port in the morning. I have been so preoccupied with getting my COVID test results that I never booked…
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I can’t believe it’s been almost 18 months since my last cruise planning post. The next one was supposed to be Carnival Magic’s Southern Caribbean itinerary out of Miami 12 months ago. After having bookings canceled for August, November, December, January, February and April, my travel agent advised me…
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The ancient city of Tulum is uniquely situated on the water and closed off by a limestone wall on the other three sides. Tulum was once home to 1,500 Mayans and served as the major shipping port for the much larger city of Coba. If you are in Cancun…
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The ancient city of Coba once covered a 70 kilometer area and was home to over 55,000 Mayans. The archaeological zone is only about two kilometers. It consists of several areas connected by the Mayan highway and includes the second tallest temple in the Mayan world.
Coba is located approximately…
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