Changing Tides, Shifting Gears, Next!, Plan….G? I know it’s been a minute, but despite some big changes we really don’t have a lot to share. We spent six weeks hanging out in Calgary before briefly returning to the ship in Manila. While we were home a few things happened that led to our current situation. First off, Villa Vie changed the itinerary to ‘homeport’ out of Singapore. The global fuel shortage finally caught up with us and Singapore is one of the few places that

Bali We arrived in Bali later in the day, so we opted to just walk around the port area before dinner. Indonesia as a whole is a mostly Muslim nation; however, Bali’s population primarily practices Hinduism. You could see the difference immediately with statues of Hindu gods adorning the port area. We walked over to check out a park that shows up on Google maps, but it isn’t open to the public just yet. It was still cool to see the different statues and all the fishing bo

Melbourne, Australia As anticipated, we didn’t arrive back in Melbourne until after 5:00pm, so by the time we received clearance to leave the ship it was after 6pm. When we were here the first time Mike took photos of the solar system that is on display along the waterfront, but we missed Pluto, so our first stop was the missing planet. From here we went in search of food, and we ended up having pizza and gelato before heading back to the ship. It was a little strange to b

Tauranga, New Zealand We’ve officially come full circle. When we first retired in 2022, we set off on our first adventure where we bought a camper in New Zealand and spent six months travelling the North Island. We had every intention of returning the following winter, but the opportunity to sail the world presented itself and we couldn’t resist. Three years later we’ve finally found ourselves back in New Zealand. We can honestly say that despite everywhere we’ve been sin

Tonga, Vanuatu, and more Australia Neiafu, Tonga (Vava’u Island) After five long, rolling sea days and jumping the international date line again, we arrived in Neiafu, Tonga. We went to bed on January 24 and woke up on January 26; January 25 just vanished for us. We arrived late afternoon and by the time we were cleared to tender it was already almost 5pm. The last tender back to the ship was set for 7pm, so we decided not to bother. This added our sixth sea day, but at l

Bora Bora, Raiatea, Moorea, Tahiti and more... La Orana (hello) and welcome to French Polynesia. Turns out Starlink works just fine and we haven't had any internet issues outside of the normal questionable connectivity. I hope you enjoy reading about our time in these incredible islands. I apologize in advance because this is a long one. Vaitape, Bora Bora Well after 15 years of promises, Mike finally took me to Bora Bora. It’s not quite the overwater bungalow I envisione