Day Thirty Eight - February 12 Well it was back to Los Angeles again on the Magical Mystery Cruise . We arrived at 07:00am at Pier 46 but not the same pier as we embarked from on January 6. The main cruise terminal spots were occupied by two mega Princess ships who regularly do seven days cruises down the Mexican coast. We were not supposed to be returning to Los Angeles when we first left port. I assume we will meet these ships somewhere on our journey in th...

Day Thirty Seven February11 Today is the last of nine straight sea days on the Oceania Insignia. Surprisingly the time has gone by rather quickly. We left Bora Bora at 16:00 February 2 to begin our journey back to Los Angeles. Here is a brief synopsis of what has happened during this time. For those who have not cruised, all cruise lines provide their passengers with a daily newspaper style paper reporting on the activities for the next day. Oceania's is cal...

Day One Embarkation Day! Both of us are very excited that the day has finally come. Having registered with the Oceania representative at the hotel the previous day we were advised to meet at 9:45 for the bus trip to the main cruise port terminal in Los Angeles. Our luggage was collected from our rooms and delivered to the ship along with a dozen bottles of Acrobat wine purchased earlier from the nearest wine establishment. While waiting at the meeting area I o...

Here we go... Our flight to Los Angeles was with Southwest Airlines. This is the first time with them and were pleasantly surprised. The airline does not provide reserved seating but Janice and I purchased Business Select ($137) which allows you to board the plane first. On the suggestion of our friend Tom, we made our way to the back of the plane avoiding passengers who would have passed us if we had seated ourselves at the front. We were still being very ca...