Novermber 2008

If you are lucky enough to be cruising during the month, please list your cruise and the date and we will do our best to stalk you along your journey to get a glimpse of your ship. Please list your dates and ports.

We are so looking forward to being on the Voyager again - cruising Nov. 5 from Monte Carlo to Rome with a 2 night stop in Barcelona.

We are in cabin 651 and hope to meet some other LCT loggers as we will not be cruising with our usual group. Keeping our fingers crossed for good weather.

Does anyone have suggestions for what to do in Valencia, Menorca and Corsica??

We are very lucky to have a cocktail reception at the Picasso in Barcelona and a organ concert at the cathedral in Majorca included. I don't know when this was designated as a President's Cruise, but should be exciting. Can't wait!!

Jan and Charles
Lake Charles, La.

GAME/SAMBA
It's been a long wait - now less than 4 months to go. I can cope with that! :)

Here's the November ports of us DCers, including GAME for some of us.

Nov 1 Mumbai
Nov 2 At Sea
Nov 3 Cochin
Nov 4 Male
Nov 5 At Sea
Nov 6 At Sea
Nov 7 Mahe Port Victoria
Nov 8 Mahe Port Victoria/La Digue/Praslin
Nov 9 At Sea
Nov 10 At Sea
Nov 11 Mombassa
Nov 12 Mombassa
Nov 13 Zanzibar
Nov 14 At Sea
Nov 15 At Sea
Nov 16 At Sea
Nov 17 ship in Richard's Bay (GAME-fly to Madikwe Hills)
Nov 18 ship in Richard's Bay (GAME-Madikwe Hills)
Nov 19 At Sea (GAME-Madikwe Hills)
Nov 20 Cape Town (fly to CT from GAME)
Nov 21 Cape Town - SAMBA begins
Nov 22 Cape Town
Nov 23 At Sea
Nov 24 Walvis Bay
Nov 25 Walvis Bay
Nov 26 At Sea
Nov 27 At Sea
Nov 28 St. Helena - Jamestown
Nov 29 At Sea
Nov 30 At Sea

Ida and I are sailing on TURKEY with
Diane, Marcia, Rich+Carol, and Replayer
and his wife...23 Nov from Funchal to
Ft. Lauderdale..can't wait...r/wes

Yay Wes! Soon!

The lovely "Miss Lynn" and I will be off on our first Silversea cruise Nov 9 aboard Shadow. Sure did hate to leave Regent, but the no smoking on the balconies was the last straw.

Jim and I are on the November 23 Voyager crossing (TURKEY). Our friend Pete and his new fiancee Emily will be joining us. Looking forward to meeting the LCT group.

Mary Ellen

My parents, O.L. and Joan Davis, are on the Voyager Grand Crossing:

Nov. 15 - 23 -- Rome to Funchal
Nov. 23 - Dec. 1 -- Funchal to Ft. Lauderdale

We're not with them on this cruise, so we appreciate you "adopting" them. They are seasoned travelers and wonderful people.

Kathy and I will be in 827 on the Mariner; Sydney to LA, 11/19 - 12/20.

MANY of us will be on the Navigator on SAMBA from Cape Town to Rio, most staying on and doing a B2B from Rio to FLL disembarking Dec. 18th.

Nov 21 S Cape Town, South Africa (overnight) Embark
Special shore event included for full cruise guests
22 SU Cape Town, South Africa 5pm
23 M Cruise the West Coast of South Africa
24 T Walvis Bay, Namibia (overnight) 9am
Special shore event included for all guests
25 W Walvis Bay, Namibia 2pm
26-27 TH-F Cruise the South Atlantic Ocean
28 S Jamestown, St. Helena, UK 9am 2pm
29-30 SU-M Cruise the South Atlantic Ocean
Dec 1-2 T-W Cruise the South Atlantic Ocean
3 TH Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (overnight) 10am
Dec 4 F Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (overnight) Embark
5 S Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1pm
6 SU Cruise the Coast of Brazil
7 M Salvador de Bahia, Brazil 8am 3pm
8 T Cruise the Coast of Brazil
9 W Fortaleza, Brazil Noon 5pm
Special shore event included for all guests
10 TH Cruise the Coast of Brazil
11 F Cross the Equator
12 S Cruise the Atlantic Ocean
13 SU Bridgetown, Barbados 10am 6pm
14 M St. John’s, Antigua Noon 6pm
15 T San Juan, Puerto Rico Noon 11pm
16 W Cruise the Atlantic Ocean
17 TH Cross the Tropic of Cancer
18 F Ft. Lauderdale, USA

Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes! We're finally sailing the Regent seas again. Alan and I are on GAME, plus the first segment of SAMBA (Cape Town to Rio). We're actually starting GAME a few days early with a visit to Lion Sands. This is going to be so much fun. Can't wait to sail with the LCT'ers that we've already met plus some we've been wanting to meet in person.

I have had the pleasure of sailing with Luke's parents, Joan & Oz. They are the most delightful couple - both are fun & have a wonderful sense of humor. For anyone else lucky enough to be sailing on the Voyager Grand Crossing with them, they are definitely a "must meet" couple. Luke, tell them I have done this crossing (on the Diamond) - and they are going to have one fantastic cruise.

Thanks, Betty .... Mother and Dad are VERY excited about both the port-portion of the trip and the endless sea days.

Luke, Mary Ellen;

We will look for Oz+Joan, Jim and Mary Ellen
on the Funchal to FL segment...as we get closer we can set up a meet+greet time/location on
sail away, 23 Nov..r/wes

Thanks, Wes. By the way, Dad is "O.L." .... actually:

He is Ozro Luke Davis, Jr." --- "O.L."
I am "Ozro Luke Davis, III" -- "Luke"
Our son is "Ozro Luke Davis, IV" -- "Oz"

Always interesting when the 3 of us travel together!

We're doing a 25 day b-2-b on Crystal, beginning Oct.29th in NYC, 12 day Carib.to Miami, and then, 13 day Panama Canal to L.A., ending the Sunday before Thanksgiving.

Going Prague to Paris with Ngaire and Ken on Amadues Waterways in November...Can't Wait!!!!

We sail November 1 on the Navigator from Mumbai to Capetown to pick up all the Game/Samba group. We stop in Cochin, India; Male, Maldives; Mahe,La Dique and Praslin in the Seychelles; Mombasa, Kenya; Zanzibar, Tanzania; and Richards Bay before the ship gets to Capetown on November 20. I fly from Richards Bay to Capetown on the 18th to spend a couple nights at Birkenhead before getting back on the ship with the group on the 21st. (Jerry is staying on the ship--he says to work, but it's probably to get some peace and quiet ;) .) Then its off to Rio with a stop in Namibia and St. Helena on the way.

Peggy, I'm really looking forward to meeting you on SAMBA (Jerry, too). Take care of the Navigator until we get there.

Ou Docs are in! Got the email from B&K yesterday! Prague to Paris here we come!

Wonderful news Todd! :app:

Congrats Todd!!!

You guys are going to have a blast!!!!

FV

Thanks Guys!

All packed. Staying at LAX Hotel overnight - leave first thing in the morning for Prague!

Can't wait to hear your report Todd.
Have a great trip.

Have a wonderful time, Todd! :bv:

Have a great trip, Todd!!!

I'll post along the way! Thank you all. Can't wait to see Ngaire and Ken in Prague!

Have a great time, Todd. Looking forward to reading about your riverboat cruise. Safe travels!

Sitting at the Delta Crown Room in Atlanta - waiting for the flight to Prague. :banana: :banana: :banana:

Have a great time, Todd - we look forward to hearing from you along the way!

Have a blast Todd!!!!

Crown room in Atlanta is not a bad place to chill before a flight, I will be chilling in there on 11/14/2008 waiting to go to JNB..

FV

And the Mondaes and Olivia will be there 11/16!!!!

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AHHH remember meeting before Fjords in Atlanta? Marilyn was MIA and we all were worried - I think she was shopping? But we all hung out in the lounge.... FUN memories!

Suzie - you, Marilyn and I are supposed to be manning the chat board while the SAMBA folks are sashaying their way back to Rio.

I'll be with you ALL THE WAY. Of COURSE, the Mondaes and Olivia (and hopefully Frank) will at least raise an amarula cream in our honor.

XOX, Anne

I will too Anne !!

We will as well Anne! You can count on it. Even though i have no idea what we are talking about here. We will miss you Anne, David is thinking he may have to "do" the other shoulder. Can't make it without you......

We will be in the crown room on the 13th! Awaiting that quick and easy flight to Johannesburg.....ah the Ambien.

raise an amarula cream in our honor.

Anne like a 'buca???? count on it!!!!!