On the Sea for Two Weeks and Climate Change

What is your life worth? Can you give two weeks of your life to travel the seas to a tropical island and back? Why not .. if you can.. and we did.

I know that you can get on a jet and zoom over to the Hawaiian islands in roughly 5 hours experience a ton of fun things to do and the weather, zoom back home and life goes on.

We had never done that.. I am not saying that it is bad. Its a little different when you travel and arrive and return via a 109,000 ton ship with 26000 passengers on it like the Golden Princess.

We have been to Alaska a few times of the ship.. Its a great 10 day trip in the summer. You get into the rhythm of sailing and sailing and getting off at a port and enjoying the port for a day and then clambering on board and sailing off to the next port. At night you gather with your intrepid fellow travelers and there is a chance to share with them the adventures of the day. The choices are made and the food is served. Its really a graceful way to travel and develop a community with strangers.

We decided that we could do the same with a cruise to Hawaii. The price was roughly the same.. about 1200 dollars apiece. The journey would be 14 days round trip out of LA.


With some careful scrutiny of travel arrangements and cabin selection.. we needed one of the 25 accessible cabins on the ship, we made plans to sail the end of October and return after the first week of November.

We had warm days in October in the central valley. When we returned in November the warm days are gone, replaced by the rainy cool Fall weather. When we left the afternoons would get into the high 80's. In November there is no such warm. The high temperature is more likely to be in the 60's. What a change. The shorts weather we had were exchanged for the more winter oriented long khakis and tee shirts under short sleeve shirts. 

Cat/house sitters were found and bags were packed to arrange an overnight stay in Long Beach with a short no worries, "walk on the ship embarkation" the next afternoon. The ship, The Golden Princess was there as planed and we rolled and walked on with our usual moves when we take the NCL ship at the same harbor to Mexico for 7 days.

The next set of entries to this blog are from the daily diaries of the log I kept every day of the journey. The accounts are not meant to brag or in anyway insult or complement the people or the events contained in them.  If you are not interested in this account it is okay and I will not hold you responsible for a test on its contents at its conclusion.


So.. at the top of each day there is an entry that divides it from the previous day. It has a Day number a date and a weather forecast.  I used the Princess Patter.. the daily paper delivered to each cabin the night before to gather and insert this information. 

I hope you enjoy "Pat's Patter" which this is all about. : ) Pat