A Northern Journey
Aug. 25th, 2023 09:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerLast year I did get away on a vacation that involved more than driving back home for the first time in some time, but a hurricane hitting the Maratimes just as the bus tour was headed that way resulted in me getting back to my place after just long enough to appreciate getting back. My parents moved on to planning another trip, however, and they were thinking bigger this year in looking up a cruise on the line I’d travelled with before. With the itinerary involving travelling north from Boston, past the Maratimes, stopping at the southern tip of Greenland, and circling Iceland before heading back through different ports of call, this was something I was interested in joining.
I’d seen much of either end of this cruise on previous trips, but having a chance to revisit places was appealing in its own way. Getting a chance to see a little bit of Greenland, including some glaciers (“while they’re still to be seen?”) was another draw. The certain emphasis along the way of “retracing a Viking route” just might have left me glad the visitor’s centre at L’Anse aux Meadows, at the north end of Newfoundland, also went into detail about the people already on the island the Vikings had run into, though.
Being fed on a cruise is its own draw. In the context I’m offering this post, however, I am conscious some of the people who might happen on it remain more cautious than I’ve got to the point of about exposure to viruses. The passengers didn’t seem to deplete, but unspecified “colds” did seem to run around. I didn’t make any specific plans for future vacations during this one. Thoughts of getting along to somewhere else are still in my mind even so.
I’d seen much of either end of this cruise on previous trips, but having a chance to revisit places was appealing in its own way. Getting a chance to see a little bit of Greenland, including some glaciers (“while they’re still to be seen?”) was another draw. The certain emphasis along the way of “retracing a Viking route” just might have left me glad the visitor’s centre at L’Anse aux Meadows, at the north end of Newfoundland, also went into detail about the people already on the island the Vikings had run into, though.
Being fed on a cruise is its own draw. In the context I’m offering this post, however, I am conscious some of the people who might happen on it remain more cautious than I’ve got to the point of about exposure to viruses. The passengers didn’t seem to deplete, but unspecified “colds” did seem to run around. I didn’t make any specific plans for future vacations during this one. Thoughts of getting along to somewhere else are still in my mind even so.