The Americas

Hello again, and thank you for visiting. Today is the story of the final days of our trip. Hope you enjoy these final tales.  For those that are interested, Royal Caribbean shared a 15 minute video highlighting the Ultimate World…

On Friday, September 6th, we found ourselves in the Royal Navy Dockyard in Bermuda.  Really pretty here, but boy is it hot. The kind of hot that hits you in the face when you open the door, like the back…

Thank you for checking back in. Welcome! On September 3rd, we awoke with the ship docked at Pier 88 in Downtown Manhattan, in the fabulous New York City (NYC). Located in Hell’s Kitchen, Pier 88 has quite a little history. During…

Hello again. Thank you for coming back. Today is Saturday, day number 77.  We’re running behind a bit, so I’ll be brief. Here is a quick recap of our recent adventures. After leaving LA, we had several days at sea before…

Hello. And welcome back to mikus.com, home of the “Getting There. Doing That.” travel blog. (We haven’t been there, but we’re getting’ there…) Today’s adventure took us to the state of California’s great city of Los Angeles. (a.k.a. LA.)  Los…

Hello, and happy Saturday to all our friends out there. Can you believe it has already been 2 months? Time flies when you’re having, well, let’s just say it’s fun not having to shovel snow… Today we are south of…

Hello all. Thanks for checking back. Today we are in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico (a.k.a. Cabo) which translates to “Cape Saint Luke”. We have been lucky enough to have previously visited the fun city of Cabo several times. Karen has…

The itinerary had us docking yesterday at San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua. There was a tempting excursion available there to snorkel in a world-class underwater statue garden just off of the coast. However, I have to admit that this country’s…

First things first. I am running behind on my door art pictures. Karen changes our door art pretty much daily. So here are some recent pictures.  Much thanks to Tristan who used her extreme talent and her Cricut cutting machine…

Geographically, nearly ~60% of Peru is rainforest, and ~30% is the highlands of the Andes Mountains. Although the desert coast (on the nation’s western edge) only occupies 11% of the country, nearly 90% of its population resides in this area,…