Hopping Aboard Our Third Letterboxing Cruise!
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Started on 2007-11-01
Hopping Aboard Our Third Letterboxing Cruise!
From: wandaandpete (wandaandpete@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2007-11-01 17:16:18 UTC
Also wanted to mention that a few weeks back we signed on board for our third ever
letterboxing cruise! We had gone on both Norwegian and Royal Caribbean letterboxing
cruises before in 2003 and 2005, and discovered that we had just as much fun on the $200
cruises as we did on the $1000 ones, so we thought we'd go on just one more! Well, Pete
had to opt out, so I decided to go with my letterboxing friend Irene, but just days after we
signed up, all hell broke loose - wildfires in CA!!! We got a fantastic price, though: only
$215.47 with senior discount for a 5-day cruise with all the trimmings from Long Beach to
San Diego to Catalina Island to Ensenada, Mexico on the "Monarch of the Seas" for Jan.28 -
Feb 1, so we thought we'd pass that along just in case there were any other parties not
already otherwise booked that might be interested in joining this exciting little adventure!
Let's hope those fires should all have subsided long before that time, but probably because
of them, I noticed that Royal Caribbean today is offering an additional $75 onboard credit for
that cruise -something we didn't get- so now there is even more incentive to sign on! Please
let us know if anyone else might want to go winter cruising in southern California, or maybe
even just meet up with us for some letterbox magic along the way! Here's to some great
California dreamin' for Irene's first trip to CA!
Wanda from RI and Irene from CT
Re: Hopping Aboard Our Third Letterboxing Cruise!
From: wandaandpete (wandaandpete@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2007-12-25 00:38:49 UTC
Well, looks like letterboxers have "missed the boat" as far as joining us on our third
upcoming letterboxing cruise at those fantastic fares we had mentioned earlier! At last
glance, it seems that all but a few of the pricier staterooms ( still inexpensive by most
cruise standards, though) had already been snapped up by other adventurous souls, so
we'll just have to try to leave some boxes behind for other letterboxers who may be able
to follow in our footsteps later on! In fact, if anyone would like us to plant or replace a
box for them during our CA travels, all we ask is that you please keep it small (preferably
a microbox), and we would be happy to oblige!
Also, we would still be happy to have anyone join us - or take us under their wings! - on
the land portions of our trip. We'll be pretty busy before the cruise if we rent a car to try
and go visit my "trail angel" (from my three Mexico to Canada thru-hikes of the Pacific
Crest Trail in the "80's and 90's), but we'll still have Tuesday (Jan. 29) to box our way
around the harbor in San Diego, and Friday(Feb. 1) after our cruise to catch some
letterboxing around LA, if, for example, anyone might wish to join us and help us
negotiate our way through the LA transportation system to get to Pointe Vicente
Lighthouse, the Getty Center, Griffith Park, or wherever! Suggestions are always
appreciated, and we hope to actually start looking at a few clues after the holidays, too!
Cheers,
Wanda from RI
upcoming letterboxing cruise at those fantastic fares we had mentioned earlier! At last
glance, it seems that all but a few of the pricier staterooms ( still inexpensive by most
cruise standards, though) had already been snapped up by other adventurous souls, so
we'll just have to try to leave some boxes behind for other letterboxers who may be able
to follow in our footsteps later on! In fact, if anyone would like us to plant or replace a
box for them during our CA travels, all we ask is that you please keep it small (preferably
a microbox), and we would be happy to oblige!
Also, we would still be happy to have anyone join us - or take us under their wings! - on
the land portions of our trip. We'll be pretty busy before the cruise if we rent a car to try
and go visit my "trail angel" (from my three Mexico to Canada thru-hikes of the Pacific
Crest Trail in the "80's and 90's), but we'll still have Tuesday (Jan. 29) to box our way
around the harbor in San Diego, and Friday(Feb. 1) after our cruise to catch some
letterboxing around LA, if, for example, anyone might wish to join us and help us
negotiate our way through the LA transportation system to get to Pointe Vicente
Lighthouse, the Getty Center, Griffith Park, or wherever! Suggestions are always
appreciated, and we hope to actually start looking at a few clues after the holidays, too!
Cheers,
Wanda from RI