El Caribe: Boston to Cozumel: 14 days aboard the Norwegian Dawn

Plattsburgh, New York
Latitude 44 41' 57" N
October 31, 2013

In a day friend Glenda and I will be on our way.  First, a short flight to Boston, breakfast at the airport, then a short taxi ride to the Boston port.  We board the Norwegian xxx and set sail at 5:00 pm.  this is what I consider my reward for a three month rehabilitation from a full knee replacement in August.

A year ago I'd arrived in Kathmandu, Nepal on this date.  This year it would be impossible to do that trip.  There is still fatigue, my knee still buckles and the reality is that my knee just oculd not sustain a trip of that caliber.

So this is a good compromise.  Two weeks aboard ship with six stops.  Then a week on the Carribean coast of Mexico with most of the time in Playa del Carmen--home more than once in my Mexican coastal days.  On November 21st I fly to Mexico City  and will get to spend Thanksgiving at the Casa and watching the very beginnings of the Christmas season emerge.  By the  time I leave in early December Christmas trees  will be for sale, the Christmas street markets will have emerged and the azaleas will have just come into bloom.

I'll be home in time for Christmas here then back to DF in January.  A short winter.

SHIP NAME:	Norwegian Dawn	SAILING DATE:	11/1/2013
Date	Port-Itinerary
11/1/2013	BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
11/2/2013	AT SEA
11/3/2013	AT SEA
11/4/2013	AT SEA
11/5/2013	ST.THOMAS, UNITED STATES VIRGIN ISLANDS
11/6/2013	ST. JOHN'S, ANTIGUA, ANTIGUA BRIDGETOWN, BARBADOS AT SEA
11/9/2013	WILLEMSTAD, NETHERLAND ANTILLES
11/10/2013	ORANJESTAD, ARUBA
11/11/2013	AT SEA
11/12/2013	AT SEA
11/13/2013	COZUMEL, MEXICO
11/14/2013	AT SEA
11/15/2013	TAMPA, FLORIDA