Segments 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 – Inclusion March 1 – May 5, 2023

(Ushuaia, Argentina to Milwaukee, Wisconsin)

SEGMENT ZERO

DAY 1 March 1-2 — Orlando TO Miami TO Buenos Aires, Argentina

DAY 2 : March 2 — Buenos Aires

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SEGMENT ONE

Day 3 : March 3 — Buenos Aires, Argentina ->Ushuaia -> Beagle Channel -> Drake Passage

Day 4 : March 4 — Drake Passage southbound -> Antartica Peninsula

Day 5 : March 5 — Drake Passage southbound -> Cross Antartica Circle: 66.5 degrees S

Day 6 : March 6 — Stonington Island, Antartica Peninsula: 68.11 degrees South

Day 7 : March 7 — Laird Island and Detaille Island (bypassed, unfavorable landing conditions)

Day 8 : March 8 — Beer Island

Day 9 : March 9 — Melchior Base (submarine dive)

Day 10 : March 10 — Neko Harbour (final landing in Antartica)

Day 11 : March 11 — Damoy Point, Antartica

Day 12 : March 12 — Crossing Drake Passage (northbound)

Day 13 : March 13 — Cape Horn, Chile (cruising)

Day 14 : March 14 — Ushuaia, Argentine (turnaround day) –

END SEGMENT ONE – (Ushuaia Argentina to Ushuaia, Argentina)

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BEGIN SEGMENT TWO – (Ushuaia, Argentina to Valparaiso, Chile)

New Segment Two passengers flew down from Buenos Ai8res and joined the ship on the evening of March 14 in Ushuaia as we had done on March 3. Once all new passengers were on board we sailed in the early evening on March 14 in the Beagle Channel, briefly turning into the Southern Atlantic Ocean, and thence headed westerly in the Drake Passage for Cape Horn.

Day 15 : March 15 — Cape Horn, Chile (cruising)

Day 16 : March 16 — Chilean Fjords – Garibaldi Glacier

Day 17: March 17 — Chilean Fjords – Agustino & Hyatt Glaciers

Day 18: March 18 — Punta Arenas / Patagonia

Day 19: March 19 — Chilean Fjords

Day 20: March 20 –Chilean Fjords – Glacier El Brujo (“the sorcerer”)

Day 21: March 21 — Chilean Fjords – Pio XI Glacier (Pope Pius 11)

Day 22: March 22 — Pacific Ocean (bypass Tortel, Chile)

Day 23: March 23 — Puerto Chacabuco, Chile

Day 24: March 24 — Castro, Chile

Day 25: March 25 — Chilean Fjords

Day 26: March 26 — Pacific Ocean

Day 27: March 27 –Valpariso, Chile (Port for Santiago)

END SEGMENT TWO – (Ushuaia, Argentina to Valparaiso, Chile)

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BEGIN SEGMENT THREE – (Valparaiso, Chile to Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Day 28: March 28 – Sail Pacific Ocean

Day 29: March 29 – Sail Pacific Ocean

Day 30: March 30 – Iquique, Chile (Port for Santiago)

Day 31: March 31 – Sail Pacific Ocean

Day 32: April 1 – Sail Pacific Ocean

Day 33: April 2 – Callao, Peru (Port for Lima)

Day 34: April 3 – Sail Pacific Ocean

Day 35: April 4 – Sail Pacific Ocean

Day 35: April 5 – CROSS EQUATOR – Manta, Ecuador

Day 36: April 6 – Sail Pacific Ocean

Day 37: April 7 – Sail Panama Canal to Colon, Panama

Day 38: April 8 – Colon Panama, overland: Panama City, Panama

Day 39: April 9 – Sail Caribbean Sea

Day 40: April 10 – Sail Caribbean Sea

Day 41: April 11 – Cozumel, Mexico

Day 42: April 12 – Sail Gulf of Mexico

Day 43: April 13 – Fort Lauderdale, Florida

END SEGMENT THREE – (Valparaiso, Chile to Fort Lauderdale, Florida)

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BEGIN SEGMENT FOUR – (Fort Lauderdale, Florida to Toronto, Canada)

Day 44: April 14 – Sail Atlantic Ocean

Day 45: April 15 – Charleston, South Carolina

Day 46: April 16 – Sail Atlantic Ocean

Day 47: April 17 – Norfolk, Virginia

Day 48: April 18 – Sail Atlantic Ocean

Day 49: April 19 – New York City, New York

Day 50: April 20 – Sail Atlantic Ocean

Day 51: April 21 – Lunenburg, Nova Scotia

Day 52: April 22 – Cape Breton Island (Louisbourg), Nova Scotia

Day 53: April 23 – Cap-Aux-Meules, Canada

Day 54: April 24 – Sailing St. Lawrence River

Day 55: April 25 – Quebec City, Quebec

Day 56: April 26 – Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada

Day 57: April 27 – Sailing St. Lawrence Seaway Locks

Day 58: April 28 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada

END SEGMENT FOUR – (Fort Lauderdale, Florida to Toronto, Canada)

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BEGIN SEGMENT – (Toronto, Canada to Milwaukee, Wisconsin (FINAL SEGMENT)

Day 59: April 29 – Welland Canal, Canada – Port Colborne, Canada – Niagara Falls, Canada

Day 60: April 30 – Point Pelee, Ontario, Canada

Day 61: May 1 – Detroit, Michigan

Day 62: May 2 – Alpena, Michigan

Day 63: May 3 – Mackinac Island, Michigan

Day 64: May 4 – Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Day 65: May 5 – Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Charlotte, North Carolina to Orlando, Florida

END of the TRANSLONGITUDINAL

Leaving our Stateroom, and the folks who had taken care of us, for a final time on the morning of May 5, 2023.

This waited for us on our bed on our final night on board.

Gwen saying good-bye. Later she cried as we left.

Leaving our stateroom for the final time.

ARRIVING MILWAUKEE

Lunch at the long table in the World Cafe. It became almost the private Worlders table by the end of the trip. A few Worlder friends would come, eat and be replaced by others. Breakfast, lunch and evening.

We have docked in Milwaukee and are off on tours this afternoon.

The last 24 hours on the ship for Worlders was one final event after another, and even when we left the ship for the airport the following day, Viking booked more tours for us to fill time between when we left the ship, and when our flights left.

The Milwaukee Museum should look familiar. The same architect who designed the new transportation hub at the 911 Museum in New York, also designed this one.

The Harley is a beautiful museum.

Carol Anne looks right at home on a Hog.

At the Pabst Mansion we were handed cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer as we entered. It is ‘the beer that made Milwaukee famous’ — that’s what Mr. Pabst said.

The dining room in the Pabst Mansion.

THE FINAL DINNER

The Viking Final Farewell cocktail and dinner party the night before we left the ship lasted past 10 o’clock.

Returning to the ship after dinner, Viking arranged with the City of Milwaukee to do a light show for us which normally they only do on weekends — and following that we were invited to the Aula where the Officers joined us to watch a movie they had prepared on the entire 65 days.

SAYING GOOD-BYE

As we passed through the Living Room on Deck 5 on Friday morning leaving the ship, an accordion player played polkas. Very festive.

Then we were taken here to tour a museum of a company that manufactured heavy equipment which helped build the Panama Canal. Viking had also arranged for us to have lunch there.

Carol Anne works a simulator used to train operators. I had no doubt she would perform the task with ease.

But I was Wrong!

She dumped the entire load.

Whoa. This is the woman who greased the Space Shuttle onto the runway at Kennedy Space Center not once but twice when she flew the NASA Space Shuttle on NASA’s simulator.

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IN THE EARLY AFTERNOON we were dropped at the Airport and flew to Charlotte, North Carolina, catching a connecting flight to Florida later that evening, returning us to where we had begun this quite wonderful and improbable journey 56 days earlier.

It had not been clear until a few days before we were to depart that my doctors finally cleared me to go. We were prepared for them to advise against going and surprised when they cleared me.

Leaving us in Milwaukee, the Octantis and her sister ship The Polaris began a series of summer trudgings from Duluth and Milwaukee to Toronto and back in seven day cruises. They will do this until September when finally they will sail back to Ushuaia and the Antarctic.

THE MAPS

THE BEGINNING and THE END

The Translongitudinal has ended after 65 days.

This was the beginning. Carol Anne waits to board on the morning of March 3rd when we flew from Buenos Aires to Ushuaia. We boarded the Octantis that afternoon and — off we went! — we were in the Drake Passage heading for Antartica by early evening.

The Mackinac Bridge, completed in 1957, measures 26,372 feet, just under 5 miles. If you would like to walk it, show up on Labor Day. Although the bridge has no sidewalks, every year it is traditional for the governor of Michigan to lead a walk across the bridge on Labor Day.

Carriages conduct clip/clop tours around the island. It’s scenic.

Mackinac Island is touristy, but upscale touristy. It’s hard not to love Mackinac Island.

Police, fire trucks and emergency vehicles are motorized. Everyone else gets around on a bike or horse — or they walk.

The Octantis keeps a list of upcoming weddings planned on the Island. Last year the ship was held off the easterly side of the Island for a day and a bride was devastated because the ship wound up in the background of her wedding pictures.

This year when a wedding is planned the ship holds off in a position on the west side, but when no weddings are planned they use the east side waters closer to shore which is much more convenient for their 378 passengers.

This is in a Men’s room wall on the dock at Mackinac Island. Men need to be reminded not to put their feet on the walls in the Men’s Rooms?

My gender is in trouble.

THE TEESHIRTS

THE FUDGE

Fudge is for sale everywhere on the Island. It’s their specialty and they know how to do it. When we returned to the ship at the end of the day the Octantis officers and crew had purchased two boxes of fudge for us and put them on our end of our bed.

TIME TO REPAINT THE SIDE OF THE SHIP

Going through the Welland Canal after leaving Toronto a few days earlier the scorecard was Welland Canal-1, Octantis-1 (a tie). Both the Locks in the Welland Canal and the Octantis got beat up. That’s why the Octantis carries paint and why the Welland Canal Locks keep concrete handy.

This photograph is the Port side of Octantis adjacent to where passengers board the Tenders.

It got repainted.

THE SPA NIGHT

Spa Night was a spectacular event and introduced us to all of the spa’s elements — like the Snow Grotto (where it snows), the Experience Shower (where water comes at you from all directions), like the Bucket Shower (ice water you dump on yourself) … and much more.

They gave us a bag of lotions, and brushes. They massaged us. They oiled our legs and feet. And more.

Carol Anne and I had spent our remaining on-board credit in the spa before Spa Night. We wished they’d scheduled ‘Spa Night’ at the beginning of the voyage, not the end.

There’s lots more decadence in this Spa than we found just nosing around on our own.

Spa night began by soaking feet.

Lilli is on the right with Carol Anne. Lilli works in the spa. Lilli gave me three massages and we got along fine until the last massage where she pulled, pressed, tugged and generally beat the crap out of me.

The pool. Heated tile lounges are behind the fireplace in the background. Lay down on one of them and you’re instantly asleep.

Snow? — Yes. Press a button and you’ll be in a blinding snowstorm. You’ll think you’re at the North Pole hearing sleigh bells.

Inside the Experience Shower water comes at you from all directions. The red button on the right is if you think you are drowning while standing up.

Go ahead. Pull the chain and dump ice water on yourself.. Nobody in their right mind does this. People who do are never the same again.

THE MAPS

Alpena lighthouse. Nothing saved the many ships that sank here.

A list of the ships lost in the waters off Alpena.

We have boarded a glass bottom boat and chugged out in the bay to look at the ship wrecks

The Captain gives commentary and talks to the driver of the boat telling him where to go.

Radar locates the wrecks where the Captain wants to go. Since he does this several times a day, he know what he is looking for.

Pieces of a ship wrecked boat view through the glass bottom of the boat.

This is the last boat to sink here. She went down in November 1966 after hitting a rocky shoal.

Next we visited the Maritime Heritage Center adjacent to this defunct fish cannery.

THE CAMPFIRE COOKOUT and DANCE on DECK A MIDSHIPS

Whenever expeditions go ashore in Antartica they carry this huge tent plus supplies sufficient to survive on shore for several days. Weather can change quickly in both the Arctic and Antartic. A small group was caught on shore a few years ago when weather changed and they were left stranded with no tent and no p.rovisions They all died.

The Arctic and the Antarctic can look friendly one moment and be deadly the next. A snap change in the weather when we were in Pond Inlet in the Canadian Arctic sent us fleeing for the zodiacs. We have been caught in sudden severe changes in weather three times. When it happens you scramble. This is why we only do expedition travels with seasoned professionals.

THE NIGHTLY BIRD MIGRATION REPORT

THE MAPS

Built by Ford Motor Company and opened in 1980 as the Renaissance Center, today this complex of buildings ironically is headquarters of General Motors. In 1980 an effort was underway to re-vitalize the Detroit waterfront. Besides the Renaissance Center a large auditorium, the Joe Louis Auditorium, was built next door.

The Republican Party did their part by holding their 1980 national convention in Detroit, and nominating Ronald Reagan as their candidate for President.

SATURDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHTS BEFORE THE CONVENTIONS = Every four years two significant events happened the Saturday and Sunday nights before the national conventions opened on the following Monday.

On Saturday night a party for the press was held, and it was always a huge party. About 15,000 members of the press were credentialed. To put that in perspective there were only about 2,000 delegates and another 2,000 alternates, meaning the press outnumbered delegates by a ratio of roughly four-to-one. The political conventions were rightly more press conventions than political conventions.

On Sunday night amid much hoop-la the Presidential candidate — in this case Reagan — arrived and spoke at a huge pre-convention rally.

That Sunday night in 1980 I watched Mr. Reagan speak from my perch five stories above the atrium floor.

Before he spoke I considered him a third rate actor.

But as he spoke he began discussing one issue after another, taking positions which seemed more likely to cost him votes than win them. What he was saying made no sense to me so I turned to a man standing next to me and asked his opinion about what I was hearing.

“He’s targeting specific congressional districts that he will need to win the election,” the man replied. I asked him how he knew that.

“Because I am his campaign manager,” the man replied.

I covered my first national political convention in 1976, and my last in 2016, a total of nineteen.

I always called the Republican and Democrat national conventions, held every four years, a quadrennial temperature taking of the nation’s political direction.

This was the first time since 1980 that I returned to Detroit. I was curious to re-visit those places where I had covered the 1980 Republication National Convention.

Above is where the Joe Louis Auditorium was located before being torn down. The site is a short walk through a parking garage to the Renaissance Center. The Auditorium site itself is now a parking lot.

I was told that the Auditorium was shoddily built and that was the reason why recently it was torn down.

News to me.

But I recall that the roof of the brand new Kemper Arena in Kansas City, where the 1976 Republican Convention was held, and where I hung out for all four days at that Convention in 1976, collapsed a mere four months after that Convention concluded.

I can see a pattern maybe if I look.

Today Detroit looks surprisingly good. In 1980 the city was in poor shape once beyond three or four blocks from the river. Today it surprised me.

Where the Cadillac automobile got its name.

There was never anything like Henry Ford’s River Rouge plant. Raw materials came in one end, were molded into steel and other parts, and a finished Ford automobile came rolling out the other end. The plant is still there today, although it is not making steel and other parts as it once did.

No photographs were allowed in the plant, so the photographs here were supplied by Ford.

Carol Anne stands at the entrance to the plant.

GUACAMOLE & GAMES

On Deck A Midships a game night was held on the evening we left Detroit. To win one had to identify names of movies from obscure clues. I did pretty well apparently.

LEAVING DETROIT

THE MAPS

Leaving Detroit we had only two more ports before arriving in Milwaukee and leaving the ship. After Detroit comes Alpena, a ship wreck heaven, then Mackinac Island and finally Milwaukee where, on May 5 after 65 days, we leave the Octantis.

The Octantis hoped to deploy three of its four toys at Point Pelee but the weather was rough, and the seas rougher, so they never came close. Ship’s officers gave no consideration to deploying the submarines.

To use their zodiacs, special operations boats and kayaks, the Octantis had to be in Canadian waters. American regulations make it virtually impossible for them their watercraft.

It looks like an interesting place, but we never got close. Essentially we sailed on by.

This is were we would have gone ashore.

Where the Octantis planned to hold off shore during the day.

THE BIRDS

As we went further north, the Octantis became more careful to protect migrating birds. Several evenings birds wound up landing on our decks. Octantis staff were prepared to collect them, care for them and release them when possible. Passengers as well as staff were asked to keep an eye out for them.

One-hundred-sixty-nine-million birds were projected to be migrating on this particular evening.

We are at Niagara Falls. We have sailed from Toronto through the Welland Canal to Port Colbourne and then taken the bus to the Canadian side of the Falls. Now we are buried inside the plastic rain jackets they hand out and prepared to board a boat and creep close enough to the Falls to get soaked. It’s the tourist thing to do.

There are three great falls in the world. Iguana Falls in South America is the greatest of them all. Nothing is close. It had a profound impact on me. Then comes Niagara Falls, and third, Victoria Falls in Africa.

‘The Maid of the Mist” boats run along the American side. We were on the Canadian side.

I’m ready go get drenched.

Crew on the Octantis all wear red coats, as do passengers, like us, who have been to Anartica. This can lead some passengers who showed up later — like Toronto — to mistake passengers like me for crew.

Moments after Carol Anne took this photograph, a woman busied herself up to me and demanded to know where one-thing-or-anther was.

I replied I had no idea.

She replied, “well, you are Viking crew, so what good are you?”

I decided that if this happened again, I’d send the person asking off in the direction of MontreaL

THE WELLAND CANAL

This is not the Octantis, but does show roughly the same amount of room that the Octantis had going through the Welland Canal locks.

Because we sailed from Toronto so late we traveled the Welland Canal most of the night. The decks are wet. It has been raining off and on.

Officers manned the Bridge’s wing overhanging the sides of the ship. There was no leeway.

The blue ship in the center is the Octantis. We are just south of St. Catherine and just north of Thoroid.

Approaching Lock 5 (marked in Green) near bottom left of Map.

PORT COLBOURNE

Port Colborne at the southern exit of the Welland Canal.

THE STORES TOUR

Head Chef Russell holds back plastic insulating strips as he begins conducting a tour of the ship’s Stores.

Behind Carol Anne on the Octantis “I-95” corridor are ship’s Stores which do not require refrigeration like canned goods, soft drinks and such.

Every ship has a long corridor near or beneath the waterline which runs the length of the ship facilitating easy movement. On British ships it used to be called “the Burma Road” and later “the M-4” after the British M-4 motorway. The Burma Road was a crucial road during World War II in Burma.

Most ships we have traveled on recently call this corridor the I-95, after the United States interstate highway which runs along the eastern coast of the United States.

What food a ship has when it sails is all it will have until the next port. Temperatures are rigidly controlled.

An entire room full of ber.

The Octantis officers showed us every nook and cranny of their ship, and are rightly proud of it. For a time Russell was bedeviled after I asked for sauerkraut because the ship’s inventory indicated it was on board, but his guys couldn’t find it. Eventually the did.

Wendy is beside Russell on the far right of this photograph.

An entire room of wine — not easy to get around in.

Spa night a couple of nights later was spectacular.

THE MAPS

We are now on the final segment of this 65 day journey from South to North.

I loved this idea of this when we first learned of it, and we pounced and booked it far earlier than we’d ever booked a journey. This was our best trip ever, and we have been around the world three or four times in the past 15 years. The Viking officers and crew made it special — it was their first time on this itinerary and they seemed to be enjoying it for the first time right along with us.

Toronto. End of Segment Five, and beginning of the final segment.

After we leave the last of the St. Lawrence locks, the plan is to scamper across Lake Erie to Toronto, arrive early in the morning and dump those passengers who boarded in Fort Lauderdale — you remember them, don’t you? They boarded on the day it rained 24-inches.

So here we go again — Toronto is the final “turnaround day” on the Translongitudinal. Old passengers leave. New passenger are boarded.

It will not go smoothly.

Fog closes in on the Octantis in the St. Lawrence seaway, and the seaway is closed for five hours.

That means the passengers leaving the Octantis cannot disembark at 9 am, but rather have to wait until 5 pm long after most of their flights have departed for the day. It also means the passengers embarking for the final segment from Toronto to Milwaukee cannot board until late at night.

Fort Lauderdale, redux. Those Fort Lauderdale passengers had big trouble in Fort Lauderdale, and they’ve got big trouble again in Toronto. Star crossed, I’d say.

I wouldn’t stand next to any of therm.

WENDY, GUEST SERVICE MANAGER RETURNS

Wendy left the ship earlier to return home to South Africa on a personal matter. She re-boarded to Trois Rivieres and we held a reception for her in the Private Dining Room the following day. The Captain ran and drove the ship, and Wendy was in charge of everything else.

Wendy was surprised.

The last of the locks before enter Lake Erie.

KA-POW! The locks barely accommodated the Octantis, and the Octantis wasn’t the only ship passing through that took a portion of a lock with them.

Later, after passing through the Welland locks linking Lake Erie with Lake Ontario it was time to get out the paint buckets.

OUR TURNAROUND DAY TOUR GETS SCHEDULED & RE-SCHEDULED

This vineyard jaunt did not go well. It was a long drive out and back to the winery and made for a long day. Worse, they tried to sell us wine.

We were used to wine being given to us.

THE MAPS

Approaching Trois-Rivieres on the St. Lawrence Seaway.

An agreeable walkway along the St. Lawrence Seaway in Trois Rivieres with numerous historical photographs on. the far right.

I walked around a bit, until I ran into these union members chanting and hollering and, since this is really red meat for a retired journalist like me, I fell in with them and began asking questions.

It didn’t go well, partly because most of them did not speak English.

Eventually, I found one who did.

I mentioned that I had seen a smaller demoncration in Quebec the day before and asked what it was all about. I was told they are government employees and they want more money. Then they asked what was my interest and why was I taking pictures?

There was a just enough edge of hostility in that question that I decided it was time to watch from across the street.

Unionized government employees were something Franklin D Roosevelt warned against and opposed. Today the greatest number of union members in the United States work for the US government.

THE SECOND AND LAST BALLOON LAUNCH

Weather balloons generally reach about 115,000 feet before air pressure pops them. Dangling below the balloon is the transmitter which sends data back to the Octantis, Viking and its two polar ships, the Octantis and the Polaris, engage in sophisticated science in the science lab above the hangar in the rear of the ship, including mapping the ocean as it chugs along and performing studies on the content of the oceans’ waters. Passengers are welcome to help with the studies.

HOW THE ROPES SECURE THE SHIP TO THE QUAY

The metal ring halfway up the rope is designed to keep rats from climbing onto the ship.

In San Francisco a few years ago when we were going one place or another. the ship we were on, the Cunard Queen Victoria, was hit by a strong wind hit which ripped out the bollards securing the ship to the quay, setting the Victoria drifting free into San Francisco Bay.

Ships like the Victoria have balconies which can capture the wind and exponentially increase the effect of strong winds, both on shore and at sea.

In this case we were tied at an old dock built a hundred years ago, and the blast of wind ripped out the old bollards securing the ship.

The Captain told me later that “a bollard hit the side of my ship like a bowling ball!” It took several ports until I could get a good look at the dent on the front of the ship, but, yep!, there it was.

Besides setting the ship free to drift, it also dropped the passenger gangplank which could have been thrilling if anyone had been on it, but no one was.

We were on shore at the time down at Union Square, and news of the event spread quickly through San Francisco. We doubted the truth of it until we returned to the ship, but Yup! it sure had gotten free.

When we reached the next port, the Victoria got several new officers.

THE CAMPING EVENT

The often postponed “camp out” on the Finsee Terrace at the back of the ship has been postponed again.

It eventually was held several nights before we docked in Milwaukee, but the site was moved inside to Deck A Midships complete with a camping tent, a faux fire, marshmallows toasted and dancing.

As the evening went on it became just more and more fun. Eventually some of the crew stripped off their sweaters and gave them to passengers to wear while dancing with them,

Carol Anne and I inside the camping tent on Deck A at the Camping Event on May 2.

THE MAP

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Quiet scenic cruising in the St. Lawrence Seaway.

Carol Anne is Quebec City with the Chateau Frontenac hotel in the background. The Canadian Pacific built this hotel as part of a series of hotels it constructed across Canada in the 19th century. The purpose was to promote tourism and the use of their railroad.

We have visited and prowled Quebec numerous times and were here last fall. Beautiful charming city.

The Montmorency Falls outside Quebec. We had not visited these falls before.

Walking to the falls. Intermittent rain and chilly.

THE LAUNDRY TOUR

The laundry is a fascinating place, and with lots of lint, a major fire hazard. Viking has anticipated and defensed the ship against every danger they can think of. Lint is highly flammable They dispose of it carefully.

The machine of the right drys and folds sheets, pillow cases and other items. Amazing to watch.

TURN-AROUND DAY IS APPROACHING — WE’RE GOING TO ANOTHER WINERY