Tag: Vacation
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Aruba
I’d be lying if I said I saw much of Aruba. I’d also be lying if I said I saw much of its capital city Oranjestad, except in panorama from the observation deck of our cruise ship. I did experience the shopping areas within a few blocks of the cruise terminal. A true encounter with…
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Curacao
Just to the west of Bonaire is the island of Curacao (pronounced Kew-uh-so), the biggest island of these former Dutch colonies in the south Caribbean. It is about forty miles long and averages about five miles in width. It is also likely the most vibrant: populous (it has over a hundred thousand people), prosperous and…
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Bonaire
It turned out that the island of Bonaire, relatively just a spitting distance from the northern coast of South America, is not quite the Hawaii of the Caribbean as I had heard. The Dominican Republic was definitely more tropical, in the sense that it was lusher. At least in this way Bonaire is more like…
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Wasting away again in Margaritaville: Grand Turk and Samana
Every American child learns that Columbus discovered the Americas in 1492. Most though have no idea exactly where Columbus first touched down in the New World. I had heard it was somewhere in the Bahamas. Close, but no cigar. Columbus and his sailors first landed on Grand Turk, a small island about seven miles long…
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Cruising for a difference
Is there really that much to distinguish cruise lines? This cruise is our fifth, and each has been on a different cruise line. In general, one won’t complain about the food on any cruise line. That certainly is not the case here on Holland America’s ship the Noordam, wending its way in a leisurely fashion…
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Southern exposure
Work has been more stressful than I would like. And the winter has been colder than normal as well. It’s time for a sun break, which in our case means a cruise to and from the southern Caribbean. Tomorrow we are off. We’ll spend the night with my sister and her husband near Fort Lauderdale,…
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On Vacation
The hard working staff at Occam’s Razor (that would be me) are taking a well needed and blog free vacation. We leave tomorrow for Paris, France and will return on July 14th. The computer will remain at home. So please do not expect any entries until at least July 15th. I will of course be…
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On Vacation
We’ll be in Yellowstone August 16-22. Needless to say I don’t plan to spend it near a computer. Have a great end of August everyone!
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