Going Home I knew the 10 hour flight from London to Seattle would be long, but this feels like an eternity. I’ve already watched two movies and a British comedy on the BBC, I’ve had two mini-bottles of wine, and eaten an airplane meal that is busy wrecking my GI tract. Look, I’m not expecting […]

Joe has asked me to write a blog post and since he never asks me to do anything I have agreed. The litmus test of “is Emily really the writer here?” has just been passed since sentence uno of my post began with the hyperbole that I was so “admired” for earlier. But this time it is […]

Disembarking and Lisbon As we packed up our bags this morning and pillaged everything we could from our cabin, I felt like our vacation couldn’t possibly already be ending. Everything felt like it went so quickly, from the taxi ride into Barcelona, to each city that we visited, to the point that we were saying […]

Portimao, Portugal is on the Southern edge of the country and it is a very popular holiday destination for Europeans. . .only not so much in late November. To recap, this place was a ghost town. The marinas were packed with sailboats parked for the winters, the store owners had closed their souvenir shops for […]

*Note- I’ve added a bunch of photos on the other posts as well!! Thanksgiving. . .(And Seville). There are but a few lonely lights on the starboard horizon as we move through the calm, early morning waters. A giant flock of seagulls circles in our wake as we move towards Portimao, the penultimate stop in […]

I would live in Malaga. Malaga (pronounced Malaga), is a beautiful port city on the Andalusian coast between Almeria and Gibraltar. Like seemingly every other city, it was controlled at separate times by the Romans, Moors, Jews, Wood Elves, Dark Mages, and briefly in the 16th century, by Minotaurs. It’s hard to keep up with […]

Success! 5:56am. Granted, it’s not perfect, but it’s at least a respectable hour. I knew this was going to be a good day. We’re 6 days into our trip and I have now adjusted to the time zone. Take that brain! The seas have calmed considerably and I have taken to the top deck with […]

Almeria, Mojacar and La Alcazaba The mountain village of Mojacar Emily and I have started to name our fellow passengers. It makes it much easier when we’re judging them under our breath to be able to have a concise name to refer to them as. I’ll try to snap some incognito photos as the trip […]

My inability to adjust to the time zone is an ongoing issue on this trip. I did not take a nap yesterday, and I stayed up until about 10pm in hopes that I would sleep until a reasonable hour. 4:41. It’s progress. I’m up on the deck by the pool and the hot tub, writing […]

Cartagena I knew that I woke up early, but I was hoping that the clock would read something beyond 5am. 3:51. One of the difficult things about this shift in the time zones is that the sun doesn’t rise until about 7:55am, so when you wake up, there are no environmental clues as to what […]