My husband Bob and I just returned from a three-week vacation. We started out in Miami,
A favorite art deco building in Miami
then embarked on the Norwegian Pearl cruise ship that took us on an eleven-day excursion to:
Cartagena, Columbia: We took a walking tour of the old beautiful city
Beautiful balconies
Statue of Christopher Columbus in repair
Magdalena funerary urns in the old Cartagena museum
Panama Canal/Gatun Lake, Panama: We took a ferry through the five locks. It was a long scenic ride.
An old tile sign – perhaps as old as the canal
After going through the canal
Puerto Limon, Costa Rica: We rode an aerial tramway through and over the rainforest – breathtaking, walking through a butterfly preserve first.
This beauty landed on Bob’s hat
A broccoli tree – note all the foliage growing on its trunk
Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras: Roatan is beautiful, but our excursion was a bit disappointing. We supposedly were to ride in a glass-bottomed boat; however the glass was on the sides. Also it was hot and stuffy down there. Note how murky the water is.
Those things on the right are fold-down benches
Unfortunately, this was my best shot from the boat
Belize City, Belize: A noisy airboat in Belize took us through the Crocodile Trail. The water is covered with blooming water lilies and mangrove forests. We didn’t see any crocodiles or manatees, though.
We saw lots of native birds on this tour
The mangrove
Costa Maya, Mexico: In Costa Maya, we visited the Mayan ruins of Chacchoben, only discovered in the 1970s. They have been working to reconstruct them since.
The altar of this church is at the top. The people sat below
We have our friends from Frankfurt, Germany to thank for finding this wonderfully interesting tour. We enjoyed having them with us.
Our last dinner together on the ship
After we returned to Miami, we spent the day visiting a friend in the Florida Keys,
Our view from our lunch table at Mile 88 in the Keys
and then traveled to Raleigh North Carolina
Varieties of water lilies at the Sarah P. Duke garden at Duke University
Bob and Miss O outside the North Carolina Museum of Art where we saw the M.C. Escher exhibit
and New York, New York to visit more friends and family – and partake in a little culture.
From the Picasso sculpture exhibit at MOMA
The Frank Stella exhibit at the new Whitney
The Hemingway exhibit at the Morgan Library – I love what he had to say about writing
I hope you enjoy the photos – even the crooked one above.
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