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Ha! sitting solarium watching dolphins. had to watch 2 videos to sign waiver. Had to take my board out to show it to the man. He kept calling the groves on my outlaw strips. I finally gave up on correcting him🤪 jc

Much better than old terminal in WJ jc

Scared me! Thought you were going to say the wave sucked jc

Our first cruise, and first RCI cruise was the Majesty of the Seas. Is she still in service as something? The largest cruise ship in the world in 1996 when we sailed her. Smaller than anything in the fleet now.

Trying to post fish tacos from iPhone. I had to convert it to most compatible.

I am not sure any more of which ones constitute this class, I have done Navigator, Adventure, and Mariner in the past, some of them multiple times. I have not done the Explorer nor the Voyager. Did I get them all? Here are the pictures of dinner at Jimmy’s. Sorry, I didn’t snap them with my phone until we had at least eaten a bit. 😂 I just can’t control myself. I am not disciplined enough to do this properly!

Jimmy’s was as expected, a restaurant on the pier. Grackles (Texas blackbirds) stealing French fries from my plate. It was neither good nor bad, just as you would expect. We got happy hour pricing on the wine aka $1.50 off. It was about a 5 minute walk, I suspect Gaido’s where we ate 2 years ago would have been 45+ minutes on the same Seawall Blvd. Watching the happenings at Columbia U on TV. Have I mentioned we are screwed recently? There is no shuttle offered by the TownePlace Suites or the sister Courtyard property. I will be using Uber again in the morning. this trip is perfect used my Amex platinum $15 today and since tomorrow is a new month will have another $15 credit to use tomorrow. (Sorry, I need to quit with the accounting stuff🤣) I was a bit surprised by the people surfing and swimming. I didn’t think the water would be that inviting. The surfers didn’t have wet suits on. I never saw one of them actually catch a wave. Watched for an hour. Reminds me of me. 🤣 jc I took a couple of pics of the pier and our food, will try to remember to attach them tomorrow since they are on my iPhone and not my iPad which I am using now.

Eating at Jimmy’s on the Pier because it is about only thing near our hotel jc

In Uber flight from Dallas delayed over an hour meaning rush hour traffic. First thing driver said he doesn’t like to go to Galveston. $92 before tip. Would have been less than 70 an hour earlier. O well. Wolfie our friend just left our house to feed Rodrhi. I hope they got along it has been a year since he had duty. jc

Thanks OB. I was sleeping great, and then about 4:30AM I couldn’t get comfortable in any position and I tried a lot. Finally gave up. We leave the house at 8:30AM for a 10:40 departure, which gives us plenty of time to remember something we wanted to bring and not quite enough time to come back and get it. When we get to Houston, I am praying to the Uber gods that we can find a reasonable fare. Since we are going to IAH (Bush) it is a pretty long drive to Galveston. I have been checking occasionally pricing and it ranges from mid 60s to over 100. Hoping to get less than $75. Time will tell. JC😉

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The Airstream experience of 3 months, in the truck and the Airstream, very tight quarters took him from a complete mess to a semi mature dog who got the small spaces. the dining table was his bed, He visited us in the sleeping area, and liked to look out our windows which were the same as his at the dinette. Silly dog. He has become a pretty good boy after the trip.

Yes Rodrhi is a Welsh name that I bastardized so I could give him a nick name. Rod. Our 22 year old cat passed away a couple of years ago… I can only imagine how hard dealing with a kitty is, I booked the Lufthansa flight just to hook up to my frequent flyer miles on United. I didn’t really think anyone would be on that flight from the cruise with us. Easy way to meet me is to come to the FlowRider when advanced stand up is happening in the morning. I will have my little camera filming the wave. My UNC Tarheels floppy hat on. The people in the FlowRider line are waiting for their 2 minutes. We have nothing else to do but interact with people. So, say Hi. jc

Yes, it is a challenge. I am very much a person to travel. Confinements are limitations. That is hard, and always an obstacle,

The challenge for us is the longer trips stress on the DW because of dog care and her mother who is 97-1/2 who still lives in a senior apartment. We just increase the amount of time the in house health care staff spends with her (which of course costs money) and we add laundry to their duties. The DW is really worried about our trip next year, when we fly to Singapore in February and fly home from Vancouver in May. On our 3 month Airstream trip she flew home twice for a few days just to check on her. That is pretty much not an option from Australia. JC