CaribbeanDateline November 23, 2014, Norwegian Epic and the Western Caribbean
After a weekend at the Fort Lauderdale Country Club catching up with old friends from our South Florida days, we drove the forty miles down the coast to the Port of Miami and boarded the Norwegian Epic for Thanksgiving week. Almost 1,100 feet of ship and eighteen levels above the waterline. Out of Miami at 5:30 in the evening, South Beach lit up to our right as we left the harbor. Two days at sea to Ocho Rios, Jamaica, then heavy seas forced us to bypass Grand Cayman (their port requires tenders rather than dockside mooring), so on to Cozumel, where the wind made us drop our planned round of golf and walk the town instead. Cozumel turned out to be the gem of the trip: the Mestizo Monument and the story of Gonzalo Guerrero, the shipwrecked Spaniard who chose to stay with the Maya. We bought a small metal Christmas tree off a street vendor and walked it back through ship security. Friday's last steak at Cagney's, Saturday at sea on the balcony, and Sunday morning back at Miami. Next stop in January: New Zealand and Australia.
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