I went for a walk among the tombstones yesterday. Your may think, Morbid? Weird? But it wasn’t my first time doing that sort of thing.

I quietly strolled around the small, real old cemetery near where I am writing this. I saw tombstones dating back to the early 1800’s! Some burial places have been reclaimed by nature with dates and names no longer recognizable. A handful of other crypts are recent.

One of the burial places looked kind of eerie… Continue reading →

We were told that the big cruise liner we were traveling on was encountering strong contrary winds. But the skilled captain was making our ride as smooth and comfortable as possible. The boat stabilizers – whichever those are underneath the surface of the water – were working! But I quickly went back to our 6th floor balcony room and tried to capture some shots of the churning sea with my hand-dandi android. It had all became an adrenalin pumping ride!

Even the Lido Deck pool had mad waves!

Then, the rough accented Italian captain spoke through the loud speakers. Let me be honest, I have a hard time understanding people with heavy accents. It’s a little ironic because I am told that I sound like Ricky Ricardo from the old I Love Lucy Show… “Honey, ‘an’ home!”

Anyways… I did understand the captain say that we were encountering twelve foot swells. Continue reading →