Day Forty Four - February 18 Today's port of call - Acapulco Our ship arrived at 08:00 and departed from here at 17:00. The first thing you notice when you leave the cruise port terminal is the heavy presence of armed police as well as army personnel. Their presence was to make the visitors feel safer. Since we were only the 5th cruise ship to visit in 2 years, it was important to make sure that we were not hounded. The terminal was in an older part of town a...

Day Forty Two February 16 Today is Mazatlan with an arrival time of 09:00 and departure time of 18:00. The city has a population of 500,000 residents and hosts nearly 2 million visitors annually. My morning deck walk produced a wonderful sunrise. As the ship cruised closer to Mazatlan, a mountain came into view. The mountain looked very similar to Sugarloaf in Rio de Janeiro. Quite a lot of fog shrounded the mountain as well as the harbour so the pilot who was...

Day Forty One - February 15 The 14th of February (Valentine's Day) was spent at sea. While at our art class, the cabin steward cleaned our room and placed a card with balloons on our bed. It was a lovely touch. Janice also "bought" me dinner in the specialty steak restaurant Polo. It was also free cocktails on the captain so another free booze day. The trip from San Diego covered approximately 1,000 nauctical miles thus the reason for the early departure from...