Author: Neil
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North Atlantic, International Waters, to Southampton, UK
The Queen Mary 2 arrived to Southampton while we slept, so waking up and looking over our balcony rail this morning showed a bunch of ugly port infrastructure, quite a change from a week of seeing nothing but open ocean (also, I could see the large luggage carts stacked with peoples’ checked baggage being forklifted… Read more…
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North Atlantic, International Waters
I’ve never thought of myself as a “cruise person”. In fact, I had assumed (hoped?) that I would pass to the end of my days before ever taking a cruise. Read more…
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Brooklyn, NY, USA to North Atlantic, International Waters
Last night, I wanted to check something about our cruise, so I entered my info (you get a “record locator” code, just like for a flight), and the website returned “Sorry, your ship has already departed.” WTF?!? Did I mess up the dates?!? After a few seconds of panic, I told myself that I had… Read more…
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Chappaqua, NY to Brooklyn, NY
I needed to continually remind myself that we were not actually repeating a ride from Chappaqua to New York City that we’d done two years ago. Because it certainly seemed like that’s what we would have done. After all, I had memories from then of being all over Manhattan, and loading our bikes onto a… Read more…
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Skaneateles, NY to Chappaqua, NY
Fitting our deep-V rims with fat tires required deflating the tires, and was still a bit of a squeeze, but doable. Overall a lot of work to deal with 2 bikes and luggage, but didn’t feel like we were holding anyone up. I didn’t prepare Rett well for the 9 mile ride, it was super-hilly,… Read more…