Travelog Diary- Introduction- Port of LA Round Trip

My wife and I once again gathered up our life and headed for two weeks at sea on the Princess Cruise to Hawaii. This literary ramble of the trip taken at the end of January, 2013 comes from a diary that I wrote while on the ship and immediately after.

A bit of disclaimer is in order. As with much of my writing it is as my wife characterizes it a bit verbose and somewhat over explained it reaches some strange large proportions when reporting the events on the ship and off. If long Christmas family letters turn you off.  By all means skip this blog streak as I turned two weeks of this travel into 90 plus pages of journal, the source work for this blog ramble. My hope is that later this year I will work up the salient parts of this ramble and make it into an artist's journal with illustrations of the high points.

There are a couple of landmarks and definitions in this ramble. Every night I wrote what I choose to eat for dinner and what Sue choose. She is a tidy eater that always eats significantly less on the road that at home because it upsets her stomach somewhat to eat food not prepared as she would like. I am a bit of a foodie and enjoy that chance to try out foods that I would not get at home.  So it is unfair to characterize the contrasts between the two nightly meals. Also in this ramble is a header that basically tracks the day of the week, the dress of the day, the high and low temperatures and the sunrise and sunset times. These were predictive and updated daily and published in the daily newspaper called the Princess Patter. They were fairly accurate of the days temperature and weather conditions. Passengers of the ship used them to plan their activities for the day.  Each day was different.

One of my favorite activities on the ship is to get some people into conversation.  I collected these into parts of this ramble.  Many of the times I did not get a name or take the time to write down a description of their body types or the clothing that they wore.  This is probably the main distinction between this kind of writing and real writing.

The ship because of cruise length offered plenty of time to contemplate the diversity of the world.  At times this ramble gets a bit caught up in this philosophical play.

I hope that you will enjoy reading this ramble and somehow get an appreciation for ship life aboard the Golden Princess.