A Blog About The Blog

Well here it is...December 1, 2017. Eleven more days until lift off.  I have been contemplating the best way to do this blog on a regular basis.  The two issues are what to blog and then when to blog it!  I will just have to wing the "what to blog" part.  But I came up with a plan on when to blog. It will be at the end of each leg of the trip.  The trip was not really broken up into legs on any formal basis.  So, I just made up my own legs based on logical/geographical breaks in the trip.  It turns out that about every two weeks will be a good time to post something. So, I put an event on my calendar to help me remember to do it.  I will try to keep each one pithy and to the point with what I hope are a few interesting observations.  I will also post a few pics when possible.  Without further fanfare, here are the Trip Legs that I will try to blog about:

The Caribbean Sea - Miami To The Panama Canal

Ports =

Miami

Cienfuegos, Cuba

Ocho Rios, Jamaica

Puerto Limon, Costa Rica

Colon, Panama

The Pacific Coast of Central America - The Panama Canal To Baja Mexico

Ports =

Puntarenas, Costa Rica

Corinto, Nicaragua

Puerto Quetzal, Guatemala

Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

The Pacific Ocean - Baja Mexico To Tahiti

Ports =

Los Angeles

Marquesas Islands (Taihoe) French Polynesia

The Islands of The South Pacific - Tahiti to New Zealand

Ports =

Papeete, Tahiti

Bora Bora

The Cook Islands

Tonga

Fiji

New Zealand - Bay of Islands to Dunedin

New Zealand Ports =

Russell, Auckland, Rotorua, Napier, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin

Australia - Melbourne To Darwin

Australia Ports = Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Whitsunday Island, Cairns, Thursday Island, Darwin

The Java and South China Seas - Indonesia To Shanghai

Ports =

Komodo, Bali and Java, Indonesia

Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei

Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia

Manila, The Philippines

The East China Sea and The South China Sea - Shanghai To Ho Chi Minh City

Ports =

Shanghai, Hong Kong and Haikou, China

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

The Gulf of Thailand and The Malacca Strait - Cambodia To Phuket, Thailand

Ports =

Sihanoukville, Cambodia

Bangkok, Thailand

Koh Samui, Thailand

Singapore, Singapore

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

George Town, Malaysia

Phuket, Thailand

The Bay of Bengal and The Arabian Sea - India To Oman

Ports =

Chennai, Cochin, Goa and Mumbai, India

Muscat, Oman

The Red Sea and The Suez Canal - Oman To Alexandria

Ports =

Aqaba, Jordan

Luxor (Safaga), Sharm el Sheikh and Alexandria Egypt

The Mediterranean and The Straits of Gibraltar - Malta to Portugal

Ports =

Valletta, Malta

Tunis, Tunisia

Sardinia, Italy

Algiers, Algeria

Cartagena, Spain

Granada, Spain

Porto, Portugal