It’s a Floating Con

I can absolutely understand why some people say, “I won’t go on any cruise but the JoCo one.” I don’t agree with them, but I understand it now.

Cell Coverage in San Juan

T-Mobile has great coverage here, good speed, and it costs us nothing to use. In fact, it’s so good I had my phone off airplane mode for less than an hour before getting a spam call claiming to be from my area code and exchange. Fuck you, Ajit Pai. May you always have network connection…

Info!

So it turns out that my little fishy fren (click through to the blog post for another pic) is a juvenile yellow jack. Why he was following me could be “shadow feeding”–waiting for me to kick stuff up off the sea floor for him to eat, or waiting for me to eat something so he…

Ultimate coolness

We gathered on the observation deck at 11PM and the ship’s crew turned the light off for us so we could see the stars! And an astronomer was out there identifying them and talking about them. Toby and I were falling asleep on our feet so we came in after 15 minutes, but they’re doing…

This is my fren!

My little fishy fren! (Go to blog using link below if the pic doesn’t show up here). Stayed with me, sometimes this close, for a good half hour at least, as calculated using the metadata on the various pictures of it I tried to take. Also my mask is fogging up. We forgot to buy…

I made a friend

A little fishy friend, who spent 30 minutes hanging around me while I snorkeled today. I have oh so many pictures, but they’ll (well, the best ones) have to wait until I can get them web-sized. I also took a picture of a turtle butt while we were on an eco-lagoon tour in a glass-bottomed…

WHOA

GUYS OUR STATEROOM HAS A TUB. And when I get the netbook out and connected I’ll change the default tag to JoCo2019 instead of our Europe trip tag.

Huh

Our flight landed 20 minutes early. One of the passengers near us had a medical emergency-possibly a heart attack–and the captain obviously received permission to punch it and get priority landing. The touchdown and subsequent braking was the hardest I’ve ever experienced. The paramedics came on board and wheeled him out and the area of…

Cruise Food

The fare on this cruise has been stand-out in how good it is. Past cruises have mostly been decent, save for our second one which was a few years after the 2008 crash, and probably a result of the line cutting costs. The buffet on this one has been outstanding in terms of quality and…