Sorry to have been unable to do anything with the blog while on the ship due to horrid Internet connection. It took 3 hours once just to answer an email.
We will put the thing together with pictures and video when we get home.
Saturday, February 18, 2017
Saturday, February 11, 2017
Bus tour of the island yesterday, narrated by a guide who sure knows his stuff. Reception and sumptuous dinner last night, and then a show by a troupe of local dancers. Those ladies sure have excellent muscle control. One might almost use the word ‘vibrate’.
Today we will be heading downtown to check out the markets, and then we board the ship and take off for whatever our first island destination might be.
Unfortunately all the pix I took yesterday are stuck inside the phone, and due to technical difficulties I can't get them out. I hope that the setup on the ship will allow me to finally get to them. Meanwhile I've switched to another camera or phone.
Today we will be heading downtown to check out the markets, and then we board the ship and take off for whatever our first island destination might be.
Unfortunately all the pix I took yesterday are stuck inside the phone, and due to technical difficulties I can't get them out. I hope that the setup on the ship will allow me to finally get to them. Meanwhile I've switched to another camera or phone.
Friday, February 10, 2017
We’re here!
We arrived at about midnight local time on Thursday (2 timezones west of California) after an 8-hour flight from Los Angeles. All went well. It wasn't hard to meet up with our group, and once we had done this everything was totally smooth thereafter. A good night's sleep ensued.
And here’s the welcoming committee at the airport.
It’s now Friday morning. Shorts and short-sleeved shirts and a sun hat.
Nice breakfast buffet, then a walk around the grounds at the hotel. Bus tour this afternoon, and welcome dinner tonight.
More pix later.
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
We’re going to Tahiti
It’s our first ever cruise, and we’re looking forward to it. The whole package is run by a company that sets up travel programs for alumni associations and other groups of interested and interesting people, so we expect that the social experience will be fun as well as the cruise itself. Represented institutions include MIT (nobody that we know shows up on the list), Harvard, Dartmouth, Hopkins (again, nobody we know), Mount Holyoke, Bryn Mawr, Smithsonian, and other places of renown.
There will be optional activities every day of the trip, most involving water or exploration. And talks onboard by visiting scholars and other well informed speakers.
We are presently visiting Karin and Dan in Los Angeles, where the flight to Papeete, the capital of Tahiti, departs tomorrow. Then it's a hotel for a day or so, onto the boat, a new island every day, hotel, and fly back to Los Angeles for another quick visit before heading home to New Hampshire.
Everybody knows where Tahiti is, right? Yup, over there somewhere in the Pacific. We had to look it up too. Tahiti is a the major island in the Society Islands, a collection of islands in the larger collection of islands called French Polynesia. It is indeed located in the Pacific, south of Hawaii (below the equator—a first for us) and west of Peru. Only two timezones west of California.
It has an interesting history. In contrast to many such overseas possessions, these people actually asked to become part of France rather than kicking out the invading oppressors. Though we’re sure that there are probably a few who would still disagree with this situation. It was the destination of HMS Bounty at the time of the famous mutiny.
We'll try to post something here every day—photos, Sue Anne's drawings, the occasional video, together with reports of what we’ve been up to and what we’ve learned. Just check back daily, or if you want instant notice, sign up at the box over to the right. We’ll also have a few things to say on Facebook.
There will be optional activities every day of the trip, most involving water or exploration. And talks onboard by visiting scholars and other well informed speakers.
We are presently visiting Karin and Dan in Los Angeles, where the flight to Papeete, the capital of Tahiti, departs tomorrow. Then it's a hotel for a day or so, onto the boat, a new island every day, hotel, and fly back to Los Angeles for another quick visit before heading home to New Hampshire.
Everybody knows where Tahiti is, right? Yup, over there somewhere in the Pacific. We had to look it up too. Tahiti is a the major island in the Society Islands, a collection of islands in the larger collection of islands called French Polynesia. It is indeed located in the Pacific, south of Hawaii (below the equator—a first for us) and west of Peru. Only two timezones west of California.
It has an interesting history. In contrast to many such overseas possessions, these people actually asked to become part of France rather than kicking out the invading oppressors. Though we’re sure that there are probably a few who would still disagree with this situation. It was the destination of HMS Bounty at the time of the famous mutiny.
We'll try to post something here every day—photos, Sue Anne's drawings, the occasional video, together with reports of what we’ve been up to and what we’ve learned. Just check back daily, or if you want instant notice, sign up at the box over to the right. We’ll also have a few things to say on Facebook.
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