If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Flailing — not Failing! Flailing is a cool word and I think describes my blog at the four month mark. When something is said to be flailing, it is thought to be kind of moving, swinging, or beating in [...]
I’ve been trying to catch a sunset lately but they haven’t been up to Arizona standards. I just missed probably the most impressive part of tonight’s sunset, although here are the final minutes. This was taken from the Lookout Mountain park just off of Greenway.
The wind had been blowing and some drops of rain were [...]
My Carnival’s Eastern Caribbean Glory Cruise Part 5
After living in Colorado for over 38 years, I find myself often thinking about the friends, places, and scenery there. Waking up on the first morning on the Carnival Glory, look at what was on the morning news!
This was a kick. It was 47 in Colorado [...]
Part 5 Cruising on the Carnival’s Glory: St. Thomas
Here’s a first hand report on the Rum Shack’s recommended drink, the Painkiller. I had just spent a few hours at the beach on St. Thomas and was heading back to the ship (which you can see in the background) when I found this cool little place. [...]
Carnival Glory’s Cruise Part 4
You can’t take a cruise without coming back with some stories. Here’s a few I’ll choose to share. First, this cruise became a reality when in thinking about how to celebrate Beth’s graduation from college, there was a consensus that taking a cruise would be a great way to do [...]
From the Glory cruise sailing June 7th – 13th, 2008 – Part 3
Sunrise and sunsets from sea are indescribable, much like those here in Arizona. For me, they are as important on a cruise as the destinations, and I made every effort to see them. Who can watch one without thinking they themselves are proof [...]
PART 2
The Carnival Glory is part of the largest class of ship in the Carnival fleet. It is 110,000 gross tons. That’s pretty big! The Glory’s statistics are as follows: Length 952 feet (almost a quarter of a mile), beam 116 feet(this is the width at its widest). Passenger capacity is 3,700 with an average [...]
