Today we arrived into Funchal (Madeira), Portugal. A lovely island off of the coast of Africa. There we met up with a dear friend, Jmichaele Keller. I have known Jmichaele for over 50 years, we were in scouting trips together, went to Notre Dame together, and have visited him at many places after that. Jmichaele…
So busy on the ship in the morning. I feel that breakfast is the most important meal and the Dutch must feel that too. Everyone is out for breakfast. It is so important to start off your day with food, especially protein to get your body going and your metabolism started. I still had to…
Somewhere in the English Channel Nana thinks I’m confused about which day we are on a cruise, it all depends on how you count if you count the first day we board as the first day or the first full day so I will just put the date of the day I’m writing to make…
A great sea day today. We are somewhere in the English Channel heading to Madeira, an island that is a part of Portugal. Nana and I love our sea days. Nana goes to her exercise class before Mass. I meet her for breakfast and we walk a mile around the outside deck. It has…
We finished our first 2 weeks of our cruise. I didn’t blog as we spent a lot of days on the sea and we were busy when we were in the port. I am reenergized as one of our friends, Bob blogged everyday. Our sea days were filled with eating, eating, and more eating.…
Every Spring, my train layout needs some work. The freezing, the leaves and the rain cause havoc on my train layout. After several years I have decided the layout needed some major work. For Christmas instead of presents from my children I ask for work on the train. This past two weeks, I have had…
Day 15 (February 4th, 2024) was another sea day. A little tense as we sailed through the Taiwan Strait today. No jets nor destroyers sighted so looks like no problems today. We were not far from Taiwan and China. Nana and I have settled into our routine. We get up early, play basketball at 6:30am…
One of my goals for this hobby and my layout in my back yard was to keep my grandchildren involved and excited about the different aspects of model railroading. One of the ways to do this is to keep it very personal and have them involved. Here is JP helping me test Percy On their…
My daughter and son-in-law live in Germany in an apartment. They have two children and part of my theme with the grandchildren are trains. We gave 14 grandchildren so that takes a lot of work ! After some discussion they decided to install a shelf layout train in their living room. In order to work through…
This will be an ongoing blog for the first half of the cruise. Check out part 2 for more of the story We are off on a 4 week adventure to Asia. We start in Singapore and end in Tokyo. We stop in Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, china, South Korea, and Japan. We left on January 16, 2024…
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