- Packing
- A week of extremes
- Preparation
- Dress Rehearsal
- H6, #13, and Bo
- Vlotho
- Stockholm
- Tallinn
- Helsinki
- Helsinki II
- St. Petersburg
- St. Petersburg II
- Moscow
- Beijing
- Beijing II
- Beijing III
- Beijing IV
- Xi’an
- Xi’an II
- Shanghai
- Nara – Halfway plus one day
- Kyoto
- Back in the (Former) USSR
- Muroran
- 180th Meridian
- Seward
- Ketchikan
- Vancouver
- St Paul
- Chicago
- New York City
- North Atlantic
- 78 Days and 9 Minutes
- London
We are alive and well in the Great White North. Ship docked this morning without incident. We feel very sorry for the crew. This morning, 1600 passengers and their luggage disembarked between 8 and 10am. Starting at 11am, 1600 new passengers began boarding.
My parents have joined us for this part of the trip: Vancouver to St. Paul. Nice to see a familiar face – and have some help with our increasing set of luggage and gifts.
Weather has been great: sunny and clear. The rain that was predicted did not materialize. Perfect for viewing the flowers in bloom in Stanley Park.
Learned a couple interesting facts about Canadian history. There seems to be some latent hostility towards the United States after being “duped” into switching to the metric system. There was some agreement between the Canadian government and the Carter administration that said Canada would switch to the metric system in the late 1970’s and the US would switch the next year. Canada is still waiting for the US to convert.
Tomorrow, we head for Seattle to catch our train across the Northwest. With any luck, it will be similarly without incident.
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