Visit www.awanderingdoc.com for more information Aloha Everyone!! I'm Cheryl. AKA "Bermudabound2014" on the Cruise Critic Platform. I have sailed this exact itinerary in both 2024 and 2025 and created a blog to document our travels. I make nothing off this blog. There are no advertisements. My blog is simply a place to share travel adventures. If you are looking for every single daily from this cruise in 2025 (plus every Main Dining Room Menus), all my tour info, and live co

If you have them, slip on a string of Mardi Gras beads for easy identification and meet your future travel friends at the Sea View Pool for Nieuw Amsterdam Sail Away Party!! If anything like the last two years, the entertainment crew will lead some dances and special sail away drink specials will be offered. As your host, all I offer is a nametag and friendship. The crew does the rest. Finding me should be easy. I'll be the one holding a stack of nametags, wearing this shirt

I did not shoot this video, but Sherpa and I are on the zodiac in the background How:  Pacific Whale Booking   (book at link) Where: Ma’alaea Harbor on Maui When: 10:30 a.m. boat tour start time. (Check in at 9:45 am ) Why: It’s Whale Soup Time!! Meet: 8:30 am in Billboard Onboard if you would like to find someone to share the cost of transportation to Ma'alaea Harbor. PacWhale hasn't posted the boat assigned to the 10:30 tour but it is likely to be this one (or something si

I don't have much to say about Fanning Island because our ship skipped this stop in 2024, 2025, and 2026. The first two years due to medical emergencies that had us turned around back to Hawaii (although I suspect the code red the ship was under in 2024 would have prevented us from stopping anyway). In 2026 we were cancelled due to a rip tide in the entrance to the atoll. Sadly, this island is often missed. I read cruise ships make it in about 25% of the time. So far I'm ba