Long Spring Cruise to Mexico, Through the Panama Canal, the Caribbean, and Florida
This is the Life..... I'm just about a year late in getting this blog up. Early 2017 found me happily retired and planning adventure after adventure. As we were planning our trip to China (in March and early April), I noticed a fantastic deal on a cruise through the Panama Canal with one of our favorite cruise companies, Holland America. (Yes, its for people like us who don't stay up late partying and like some of the more "genteel" entertainments -- cooking classes, academic lectures and classical music.) Anyway, the deal was so good, that I thought, "heck, why not?" and I booked our 20 day cruise and added an extra few days on our own in the Florida Keys since we landed in Ft. Lauderdale and who knows when we'll be there together again. So, we left in late April for almost a month away from home. (Our front yard sprinklers broke while we were gone -- so we had quite a lawn regeneration project once we got home....we now ...