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Easter Island – But No T-Shirt

I am sitting on my veranda with my computer, looking across the bay to Easter Island. I feel blessed to be here but sad that I won’t actually get to step on land.  I was looking forward to seeing the…

Remembering “The Disappeared”

Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo On our tour of Buenos Aires, we were taken to the Plazo de Mayo. This is a square in the center area of Buenos Aires near Casa Rosada. Casa Rosada is the pink building…

Mugging in Buenos Aires

-Sorry I haven’t written in a while. I struggle with writing to start with, and the mugging experience gave me writer’s block. In Argentina and Brazil, we were warned by Viking and local tour guides to leave jewelry back on…

Getting the Shore Excursions You Want

I mentioned in an earlier post that I had built a spreadsheet to track lots of things related to this long voyage. One of those things was to assess what shore excursions we wanted to take.  Our goal was to…